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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11116 | |
| Title: | BRONZE SPATULATE IMPLEMENT | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11116 | |
| Description: | Bronze spatulate implement with thin shaft, circular in section, tapering to a sharp point at one end. At other end, shaft flattened into a small, round blade tipped at an oblique angle to shaft. Resembles Jackson's "ligula" (R. Jackson, "A Set of Roman Medical Instruments from Italy," Britannia 17 (1986), p. 128, #28, fig. 4) or Davidson's spatulate implements in Corinth XII, pp. 184-5, #1336-1347, esp. #1347. May have been used like an ear or unguent spoon or for medical purposes. | |
| Decoration: | Pattern of two reels, round bead, two reels, and a flat bead, then section of incised linear decoration creating diamond patterns on shaft just below blade. Similar decoration to Corinth XII, p. 185, #1347. | |
| Material: | Bronze | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Intact; blade chipped, shaft bent severely out of shape. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | L. ca. 0.124, Diam. of blade 0.005 | |
| Period: | Roman | |
| Chronology: | Late Roman? Corinth XII, p. 185, #1347 is 4th century AD | |
| Area: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| Context: | NB256 B2 P10 | |
| Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Image: bw 1965 007 20 Basket: NB256 B2 P10 |
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