Credit: Photographed by User:Bullenwächter / Andreas Franzkowiak, Halstenbek
License: CC BY-SA 3.0
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Credit: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden)
License: CC BY 3.0 NL
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Comments: Iron compass, four parts. Roman period.
Credit: Rogers Fund, 1917. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/250567
License: CC0 1.0
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Comments: Compass or divider, fragment; Bronzes.
From ISBE: "Compasses" is the Revised Version (British and American) for "compass," mechughah, an instrument for describing a circle: "He marketh it out with the compasses" (Isaiah 44:13) in making an idol.
