| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 6173 | |
| Title: | BRONZE IMPLEMENT WITH SPLIT RECTANGULAR BLADE | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 6173 | |
| Description: | Bronze instrument, consisting of a round handle with blunt tip, widening and flattening into a long narrow flat blade with blunt tip, slightly split from side to side at the bottom. For surgical or medical use? | |
| Decoration: | Incised decoration: on one face, round handle has groups of incised lines, set diagonally, with dots down length of blade, and group of incised lines. On other face, only 2 groups of incised lines on round handle, dots on upper half of blade and 5 incised lines. | |
| Material: | Bronze. | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Intact. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | L00.091 W00.004 D00.003 | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late Byzantine, context at least early 12th c. | |
| Area: | St. John's | |
| Context: | NB169 P280 | |
| Bibliography: | Davidson 1952, Corinth 12, cat. 1390; Salonica exhibit 2001 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Davidson, Corinth 12, 1952 Monument: St. John's Basket: NB169 P280 Notebook Page: NB 169, spread 45 (pp. 279 - 280) |
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