Cabeça feminina

Designação: Cabeça feminina
Descrição: Cabeça coberta por um véu, face oval com testa alta, olhos ligeiramente desalinhados e nariz grosso. A boca e o queixo encontram-se pouco destacados.
A pasta é vermelha, com engobe bege e vestígios de pintura vermelha e preta.
Material: Cerâmica
Dimensões: Altura: 3,2cm; largura: 2,7cm; espessura: 2,1cm.
Procedência: Alcáçova do Castelo
Localização: Museu de Mértola – Casa Romana

Comb

Name: Comb
Description: Fragment of a comb with very fine teeth. It was made from a massive bone plate carved to the shape of a T, with pointy teeth carved at the end of each side.
Materials: Bone
Chronology: 12th century
Provenance: House of the Lanternim
Location: Museum of Mértola

Corinthianesque capital

Name: Corinthianesque capital. Medium grain white marble. The top edge is damaged
Description: The cup is ornamented with two interpolated crowns of acanthus leaves. The start of the stems is still visible, but the capital is damaged in the section of the volutes.
Materials: Marble
Chronology: 6th-7th century
Provenance: Paleochristian basilica
Location: Museum of Mértola - Paleochristian basilica

Weaving shuttle

 

Name: Weaving shuttle
Description: Boat shaped piece with a middle cavity into which the bobbins are placed with the rolled up yarn. In weaving, the shuttles carry the thread across the loom weft.
Materials: Wood
Provenance: Mértola
Location: Weaving workshop