| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 7687 | |
| Title: | BYZANTINE BRONZE FORK | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 7687 | |
| Description: | Byzantine bronze fork with a pair of long tines, rhomboidal in section, tapering to points. Head a flat disk, pierced by 4 holes, with straps extending down over top of tines to "support" it. Above this, 3 small projecting petals, of which one missing, and central one partly broken where tang for attaching to a handle of different material would have extended. Previously published as a bifurcated probe. | |
| Decoration: | Incised lines on both sides streching from central pierced holes down to bottom of "supporting" straps. Two more incised lines stretching from outer edges of top pierced hole towards missing tang. | |
| Material: | Bronze. | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Single frgt., complete except for tip of one tine and lower part of 2nd, broken at top: tip of finial and one petal; also part of top of one tine shaved away. Tang missing. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | W00.014 (top) W00.003 (tine) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L00.105 | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late Byzantine, context at least end 12th c. | |
| Area: | Forum north central | |
| Context: | NB177 P28 | |
| Bibliography: | Davidson 1952, Corinth 12, cat. 1378; Parani, Bulletin of Christian Arch. Soc. 2010 (4.31), p. 157, footnote 108. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Davidson, Corinth 12, 1952 Monument: Forum north central Basket: NB177 P28 Notebook Page: NB 177, spread 19 (pp. 27 - 28) |
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