Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | MF 7767 | |
Title: | BRONZE EAR SPOON | |
Category Code: | MF | |
Object Number: | 7767 | |
Description: | Bronze ear spoon made of a flat strip of metal tapering to a blunt point at one end. In center, shaft widens from 0.004 to 0.006 m, then narrows again to 0.004 m below the bowl. Handle attached to small, hemispherical bowl projecting straight out from handle. Similar in form to Corinth XII, p. 184, #1318. | |
Decoration: | Back of shaft decorated with incised lines: traces of two horizontal lines below and one above wider part of shaft; on wider part of shaft, short lines on both sides. Traces of incised lines on back of bowl. | |
Material: | Bronze | |
Condition: | Missing parts. Single fragment preserves shaft, tip, ca. half of bowl; other half of bowl chipped off. Surface corroded. | |
Dimensions Preserved: | L. 0.080, Max. Diam. of bowl 0.006 | |
Period: | Roman | |
Chronology: | Roman? | |
Area: | Forum north central | |
Context: | NB172 P1 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Forum north central Basket: NB172 P1 Notebook Page: NB 172, spread 11 (pp. xi - 1) |