National Treasures

About Findings Periods The Mandatory Collection of the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum
 
Object's Name: Rod Ground Loom 
Period: Late Chalcolithic
Material: wood
Site: Nahal Mishmar, Me`arat ha-Matmon
Lenght: 35 cm
Wide: 1.5 cm
Description: Round head seperated from body of stick by deep groove. A part of a ground loom, a warp beam. The round head at the end and the groove are intended to prevent the ropes lashing the beams to the pegs from slipping off.
Bibliography:
Bar-Adon P 1980. The Cave of the Treasure. The finds from the caves in Nahal Mishmar. Jerusalem, 180-179, 180: 2.
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