Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | MF 466 | |
Title: | BYZANTINE BRONZE FORK | |
Category Code: | MF | |
Object Number: | 466 | |
Description: | Bronze fork with rhomboidal tine (originally two tines; one broken off) joined to handle by horseshoe-shaped element. Handle bipartite, with lower part polyhedric and upper part broken off, but most likely was a tang for insertion into a handle made of another type of material. Cf. MF 2123. | |
Decoration: | Lower part of handle comprised of two square sections joined by a diamond section. Square sections decorated with x's, diamond section with incised horizontal lines. Handle attached to horseshoe-shaped element with a triangular section. Between handle and triangular section and handle and tang, two incised horizontal lines. | |
Material: | Bronze | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single fragment preserves lower part of handle, horseshoe-shaped element, and part of one tine; other tine and top of handle (tang?) broken off. | |
Dimensions Preserved: | L. 0.063 | |
Period: | Byzantine | |
Chronology: | Late 11th to end of 12th century? | |
Area: | Provenance Unknown | |
Context: | Provenance Unknown | |
Bibliography: | Parani, Bulletin of Christian Arch. Soc. 2010 (4.31), p. 157, footnote 108. | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Provenance Unknown Image: bw 3992 Basket: Provenance Unknown |