Spindle Whorls

This object is a disk or spherical object fitted onto spindle to increase and maintain speed of spin.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
(none)	31-16-560	(none)	(none)	(none)
(none)	31-16-493	(none)	(none)	(none)
12705F	30-12-349	(none)	(none)	Group: [A] (1) Beads. Small lapis tubes carnelian rings and bugles. [B] (2) Copper reticule containing manicure tools. [C] (3) Copper dagger with ivory and silver handle. Type II B. Tip missing. [D] (4) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli adhering to blade of 3, not photographed. Men and animals poor cutting. [E and F] (5) [E] Spindle copper with [F] lapis whorl.
12774D	31-17-321E	(none)	(none)	Objects. (A) Bead, long, clay imitation of bead cut from shell core. (B) Clay bugle bead. (C) Shell bugle bead. (D) Clay spindle whorl. (E) Copper needle (broken). (F) Clay nail. (G) Fragment of clay sickle. (H) Penannular ring of shell. [I not assigned in group] (J) [J.1-.11] Chips, flint and obsidian, including one flint piercer. (K) [K.1-.2] Fragments of clay animal figurines. (L) Animal tooth. (M) Miniature pot of reddish clay, broken. (N) Pottery fragments. [N.1-.4] 4 small bits black design on white, characteristic TO [Tel Obaid]; [N.5-.6] 2 pieces, black band on drab, coarse ware; [N.7-.10] 4 pieces red bands on drab [N.11] 1 piece plain red wash(?); [N.12-.13] 2 pieces, design in red on light ground; [N.14-.15] 2 pieces, design in red and black on light ground : rows of triangles and bands; [N.16-.18] 3 pieces with transverse bands of erased slip decoration, light red on deeper red body. (O) [O.1] Cylindrical vase of light drab clay and [O.2] fragment of a second similar. (P) Clay jar sealing (?) with scratched design. (Q) Clay jar sealing with impression of seal cylinder : subject, bulls and square shrines. (R) Clay cup, reddish ware, wheelmade, normal type, broken and mended. (S) Clay jar sealing, fragment, with design of rows of animals.
13704	(none)	(none)	(none)	Spindle whorl. Half of ... of pink stone, (steatite), polished; the top slightly convex. [drawing]
13750	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone spindle whorl. Basic diorite(?) Usual plano-convex type. Not in catalog. [drawing]
14205	(none)	(none)	(none)	Spindle whorl. Copper. Type IV. A. Broken in 3 pieces.
14438	31-16-492	(none)	(none)	Stone roundel. Dark grey slate or schist. Flat below, above a shallow truncated cone: small hole through centre. (chipped at edge).
14464	31-16-559	(none)	(none)	Spindle whorl. Greenish drab clay with incised decoration (conical top) [drawing 1:1]
14946	(none)	1930,1213.145	(none)	Spindle whorl. Of dark grey clay. Decorated with stamped dots. [drawing 1:1]
15406N	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group: [A] (1) Two strings of small lapis lazuli and silver lentoids. [B] (2) Three strings lapis lazuli ovoids. [C] (3) About 27 strings of lapis lazuli and silver double conoids. The majority of the beads appeared to have three strings. [D-M] (4) Five pairs of silver ear rings of 2 1/2 coils each. [N] (5) Fragment of a copper spindle whorl.
15456	(none)	(none)	(none)	Spindle Whorl top. Hemispherical flattened. Black stone. [additional drawing on back of card] [drawing 1:1]
17047	(none)	(none)	(none)	Spindle whorl head? Glass paste? Blue. Hemispherical. Perforated through center [drawing 1:1]
17683	(none)	(none)	(none)	Whorl. Clay. [drawing 1:1]
18113D	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads [A]. Agate elliptical and date shaped, marble elliptical, carnelian date shaped, carnelian tubular and ball shaped and long double conoid, shaped agate, facetted eliptical in carnelian, blue glaze disk. [drawing] [B-C] Also, scraps of gold foil. [D-E] Also 2 bone spindle whorls.
18113E	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads [A]. Agate elliptical and date shaped, marble elliptical, carnelian date-shaped, carnelian tubular and ball shaped and long double conoid, shaped agate, facetted eliptical in carnelian, blue glaze disk. [drawing] [B-C] Also, scraps of gold foil. [D-E] Also 2 bone spindle whorls.
18194	(none)	(none)	(none)	Spindle whorl of dark steatite. With slashed pattern thus [reference to drawing] [drawing 1:1]
18269P	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group: (A) [A and N] Pair of copper bracelets, penannular, square section with flattened papyrus ends. (B) Bangle of thin copper wire. (C) Copper fibula. [drawing] (D) Copper fibula thus [reference to drawing] pin missing. [drawing] (E) [E-O] 2 copper finger rings. (F) Bronze arrowhead, 3-flanged type. (G) Iron knife blade, straight and slender type. Broken. (H) Iron leaf-shaped blade, broken. (I) [I and P] [I] Bone spindle and [P] glazed whorl. (J) Shale amulet in form of bird. [drawing 1:1] (K) Beads: string of very small yellow glaze ring with 6 puzuzu heads of blue glazed frit and some black and white glass paste balls and one yellow pasted bead. (L) Beads: string of pink and white stone scaraboids, large shell disk, blue glaze puzuzu head, paste scaraboid, decorated, glass rings. (M) Beads: Stone beads, carnelian, sard, marble, limestone, rough.
19129	(none)	(none)	(none)	Spindle whorl. Shell Conical, with engraved lines and holes originally inlaid with lapis dots. [drawing 1:1]
2508	(none)	1927,1003.64	(none)	Spindle whorl. Black steatite. [drawing 1:1]
517	(none)	(none)	(none)	Spindle whorl of black steatite.
668	(none)	(none)	(none)	spindle whorl pebble.
8301	(none)	(none)	(none)	Shell roundel. Carved as a flower rosette with 8 petals of which 5 are marked with engraved circles: the edge is serrated. The whole is slightly convex: a hole through the center. [drawing 1:1]
8363	(none)	(none)	(none)	Spindle whorl of glazed frit, color now bleached. Plain domed top.
8914B	(none)	1928,1009.390	(none)	[A] Handle? A handle of white steatite from which projects a copper rod: strung on the rod are 5 roundels alternately of white shell and black shale: on the rest of the copper rod traces of wood. With this were found [B-N] 13 shell objects like spindle whorls. Possibly the handle and thong-beads of an ornamental whip(?). [drawing 1:2] [drawing 1:1]