Spinning Top 's Ecate

[casalino]

I would like to introduce to the many Spinning Top enthusiasts a very famous Goddess in ancient times, the Goddess Hecate, who used a Spinning Top called precisely the Hecate Spinning Top. There are many publications on this famous Goddess and her divinatory spinning top, but despite my numerous searches I have never managed to find images of this spinning top, there are images of a seal of the Wheel/Spinning Top of Hecate, (the Triplicity: life, death and rebirth), there are very clear explanations (a golden sphere called "iugx" or "strophalos" with a sapphire in the center that Hecate spins through a leather strap), but how it is made is nowhere to be seen.
Ovid even mentions her (She knows the magical arts (...)
knows well what power is (...)
of the thread set in motion by
spinning top").
I would like to reproduce it, if anyone can draw, I would be grateful if they would publish the images.
Tao, also in the book "The Spinning Top in the Classical World" that you know, Hecate's Spinning Top is mentioned on page. 49-91-111-112-113, but there are no images here either.
What will this Hecate Spinning Top be like???

[ortwin]

There are people that believe it is a disc made to spin between your hands using string:


https://www.etsy.com/listing/1537441445/stropholos-iynx-wheel-carved-in-solid




The modern version has LEDs of course:

video

[the Earl of Whirl]

I like that video.  It brings back so so many memories.  My grandma first showed me how to do this with string and a large button.  That was back in the late 50's.  Don Olney seemed fascinated with this type of spinning because I found quite a large number of these kind of spinners in his collection.

[ta0]

I hadn't reached page 111 of Giuman's book and I was not familiar with the Hecate Spinning Top. According to the book, it's Greek name strophalix (στροφάλιγξ) is a lemma used to indicate the planetary orbit.

From the book:

Now, if there may be some indeterminacy regarding the real shape of the object, which, as we have seen, Psellos describes as spherical, triangular or even of any other shape . . .

So it seems there is no one singular Hecate top that you can duplicate.  Having said that, I would like somebody to make one following this description:

Hecate's spinning top is a golden sphere enclosing a sapphire in the centre, wrapped in a bull's skin and inscribed on every side with letters of the alphabet . . .

This description suggests to me that it's in fact a buzzer and not what we call a spinning top:

By rotating it, they emit incoherent or animalistic cries, bursting into laughter and whipping the air.