| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 7945 | |
| Title: | BYZANTINE BRONZE FORK | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 7945 | |
| Description: | Byzantine bronze fork with 2 tines, each rhomboidal in section, linked at top by horseshoe-shaped element with flaring tips at top of tines; above, a handle consisting of an upside down, short triangle and a tall, narrow triangular tang which would have been inserted into a handle of different material. Previously published as a bifurcated probe. | |
| Material: | Bronze | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Single frgt., complete except for ends of both tines. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | T00.002 (tine) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L00.100 | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late Byzantine, coins at least late 11-early 12th c. | |
| Area: | Forum north central | |
| Context: | NB179 P14 | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth 12, cat. 1380; Salonica exhibit, 2001; 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: NB179 P14 Notebook Page: NB 179, spread 12 (pp. 13 - 14) |
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