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) |