Materials:
Bronze
Dimensions:
8,3 x 1,8 (max) cm
Setting:
Naples, MAN; inv. 76679
Provenance:
Pompeii
Date:
First century AD
This instrument, the circinus, was made of two legs in a plane, and found great use with the masons and carpenters, and also in wall decoration, for the execution of repetitive elements like spirals or circles.