From the Harvard Art Museums’ collections Needle

Four implements,1978.495.73-.79 © President and Fellows of Harvard College

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1978.495.78
Title: Needle
Classification: Tools and Equipment
Work Type: needle
Date: 1-400 CE
Period: Roman period
Culture: Roman?
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/174379

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Bone
Technique: Carved
Dimensions: 9.78 cm (3 7/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
Accession Year: 1978
Object Number: 1978.495.78
Division: Asian and Mediterranean Art
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Publication History

Ioli Kalavrezou, Byzantine Women and Their World, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2003), p. 152/fig. 77

Exhibition History

Byzantine Women and Their World, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/25/2002 - 04/28/2003

Subjects and Contexts

Roman Domestic Art

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