A collection of seven spindle whorls and a bead, from Asia Minor, on wood mount; two pottery pilgrim flasks with moulded rosette pattern -- 3¾in. (9.5cm.) high, from Areesh, Palestine; and eight other pottery vessels, from Hebron, Mount of Olives and Beth Gibrin, 1st millennium B.C.(a lot)

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A collection of seven spindle whorls and a bead, from Asia Minor, on wood mount; two pottery pilgrim flasks with moulded rosette pattern -- 3¾in. (9.5cm.) high, from Areesh, Palestine; and eight other pottery vessels, from Hebron, Mount of Olives and Beth Gibrin, 1st millennium B.C.(a lot)
Provenance
Lt. Gen. A. H. L. F. Pitt-Rivers Collection: one pottery whorl is inscribed as having come from the Grey Collection, purchased from Sotheby's July 1896, illustrated in Pitt-Rovers Museum cataloguep. 1164; pilgrim flasks purchased from Lawrence, January 1899; pottery mainly purchased from Lawrence, 1898

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