Object type
whistle
Culture/period
Materials
bone
Technique
carving, polishing
Mint
Production date
14 / 192
Current location
MASPG
Archaeological site
Empúries
Township
Escala, l' (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Girona, Alt Empordà)
Dimensions
81 x 18 mm
Description
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Roman-era whistle dated in the 1st-2nd centuries AD and from Empúries (L'Escala, Alt Empordà). It is decorated on both sides with two groups of incisive concentric circles and with the distal end turned. A circular perforation crosses it from the proximal end and at the same time serves as an entrance and exit hole for the air, by means of a bevelled reduction cut into the top.
It entered the museum in a purchase as part of a batch of various objects, from the systematic plundering of the Emporitan necropolis, in 1905.
© Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Girona
Omeka ID
3164