Corinth Object: MF 9957
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   MF 9957
Title:   BRONZE SPOON
Category Code:   MF
Object Number:   9957
Description:   Bronze spoon with long, thin shaft made of a flat strip of metal (rectangular in section), twisted 180 degrees 0.023 m from bowl. Bowl deeply concave and slightly oval, with square projection at tip. At other end of shaft, ring, perhaps for suspension. Function of spoon unknown; perhaps for unguents or other cosmetic use.
Material:   Bronze
Condition:   Missing parts. Single fragment preserves shaft, bowl, projection from bowl, half of loop; other half of loop broken off. Shaft bent.
Dimensions Actual:   L. of bowl 0.020, W. of bowl 0.016
Dimensions Preserved:   L. 0.118
Area:   Agora southwest
Context:   NB211 P48
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Agora southwest
Image: bw 1961 034 21
Basket: NB211 P48
Notebook Page: NB 211, spread 29 (pp. 48 - 49)
Notebook Page: NB 214, spread 10 (pp. 10 - 11)