| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 6774A, B | |
| Title: | BYZANTINE BRONZE FORK | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 6774 | |
| Object Suffix: | A, B | |
| Description: | Byzantine bronze fork with two tines, rhomboidal in section, with extra flap of metal L. 0.007 over outside of tines where they attach to horseshoe-shaped element. Small projections at base of horseshoe-shaped element. Handle a long, flat, upside-down triangle with point of triangle stretching through middle of horseshoe-shaped element and two projections from sides at top of horseshoe-shaped element. Attached to flat, wide, triangular tang narrowing to a blunt point at the top; would have been inserted into a handle of different material. Previously published as a bifurcated probe. | |
| Decoration: | Both sides of triangular lower part of handle decorated with two sets of nesting incised triangles framing seven punched circles outlined with incised circles forming a rough cross shape. | |
| Material: | Bronze | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Two joining fragments (A and B) preserve tang, handle, most of horseshoe-shaped element, and one of two original tines. Tine bent and broken into two fragments. Other tine missing. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | L. ca. 0.145, L. of tine ca. 0.077 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L. of handle 0.057 | |
| Period: | Byzantine | |
| Chronology: | 11th or 12th centuries? | |
| Area: | South Stoa west | |
| Context: | NB170 P104 | |
| Bibliography: | Davidson 1952, Corinth 12, cat. 1379; Parani, Bulletin of Christian Arch. Soc. 2010 (4.31), p. 157, footnotes 108, 110. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Davidson, Corinth 12, 1952 Monument: South Stoa west Basket: NB170 P104 Notebook Page: NB 170, spread 56 (pp. 103 - 104) |
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