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Inventory number

ΝΑ 1957 ΝΑΔ 384

Category

Implement

Period

Roman Period

Date

1st-2nd cent. AD

Dimensions

Length: 0.061 m

Material

Bone

Location

Gallery of the Acropolis Slopes, Case 3, No 21

Description
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Sewing needle with broken pointy end. It was found in 1957 in the east Roman cistern on the Acropolis south slope. Its shaft is circular in section and the head rectangular with a figure-eight shaped eye.

Παντερμαλής, Δ., Ελευθεράτου, Σ., Βλασσοπούλου, Χ., Μουσείο Ακρόπολης. Οδηγός, Αθήνα, 2016, σελ. 43-44, εικ. 32