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) |