Weight from frame

Item No.

Exhibit 019

Inventory No.

No. 61068/11984 (Sabap SS-NU)

Provenance

Nuragic Village S’Urbale, Teti – Hut F

Acquisition

Archaeological excavation 1983

Material

Ceramics

Measures

Height 8.50 cm; base Ø 9 cm

Conservation

Partially reassembled from fragments

Period

Nuragic

Dating

Final Bronze Age (12th-10th centuries B.C.)

The truncated conical ceramic object, with large circular transverse hole and circular impression on the top, is a loom weight. The presence of these objects in the Nuragic village of S’Urbale (Teti-NU) attests to the occurrence of textile activities and presupposes the existence of vertical type looms that have not been preserved until today because they were made of wood and other perishable material. The weights were used to ensure warp tension. The find is dated to the Final Bronze Age (12th-10th centuries B.C.).

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