loom weight

loom weight , Middle Bronze Age (2000–1600 BCE)

Where object was made: Sellinger and Watzinger excavation, Jericho, (present-day Arīhā, West Bank)

Material/technique: stone

Credit line: William Bridges Thayer Memorial

Accession number: 1928.3485

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This loom weight is part of the extensive art collection donated by Sallie Casey Thayer to KU in 1917. Weavers used loom weights to help keep yarn taunt as they worked. The tag reads, “Incurred from the Herman excavations at Jericho 1908 by W. B. Thayer.”