{"id":"BATTAGLIA1925-012","label":"Portole (Oprtalj) rombo","people_or_site":"Portole (Oprtalj), inland Istria","country_current":"Croatia","historic_region":"Inland Istria","macroregion":"Europe / Southeast Europe","local_name":"","source_term":"","source_language":"Italian","object_description":"The usual rectangular tablet, about ten centimetres long, bored at one end to tie the little cord.","function_summary":"Children's toy, known inland at Portole.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"battaglia_1925_rombo_venete","source_type":"ethnographic_survey","source_url":"http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0196.jpg","page_or_plate":"Battaglia 1925, p. 210","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Oprtalj hill town, inland Istria.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In Istria the bullroarer belonged above all to the coast and its Venetian-speaking towns; in the countryside inland it was scarcer. But up at Portole — today Oprtalj, on its hill above the Mirna — the rombo was known too. Battaglia had the report from a correspondent in the town, one V. Sichich; no local name survived the telling.","pull_quote":"A Portole … era anche conosciuto il rombo.","pull_quote_translation":"At Portole the rombo was known too.","pull_quote_cite":"Battaglia 1925, p. 210","term_gloss":"","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Raffaello Battaglia, 'Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete,' Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 1 (1925), p. 210: report of correspondent V. Sichich of Portole","url":"http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0196.jpg","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240324165940/http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0196.jpg"}],"source_citations":"Raffaello Battaglia, 'Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete,' Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 1 (1925), p. 210: report of correspondent V. Sichich of Portole","source_display":"Raffaello Battaglia, 'Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete,' Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 1 (1925), p. 210: report of correspondent V. Sichich of Portole","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"The usual rectangular tablet, about ten centimetres long, bored at one end to tie the little cord.","function_display":"Children's toy, known inland at Portole.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"portole","display_name":"Portole (Oprtalj) rombo","image":{"full":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_15/MUS2026-119_prm_1894_42_1.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_15/thumbs/MUS2026-119_prm_1894_42_1_thumb.jpg","alt":"Bungay English folk bullroarer cut from recycled wood, with shallow scallops along its long edges and a cord attached at one end.","credit":"Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (1894.42.1)","license":"© Pitt Rivers Museum — non-commercial/educational reuse with attribution","source_page":"https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39634","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"English folk bullroarer, Suffolk (Lovett collection).","pool_id":"europe-lovett-suffolk"},"slug":"battaglia1925-012-portole-oprtalj-inland-istria"}