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Fragmentary Roman Medical / Cosmetic Spoon Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Roman: Bronze: Pre AD 1000 item# 591836
click for details		Janus Antiquities (330) 612-3957 $65
This large, fragmentary spoon is of a type used by both ancient doctors and laypeople. Milne’s “Surgical Instruments in Greek & Roman Times” describes this type as a spoon for measuring, preparing, and pouring medicines or cosmetics. Interestingly, the bowls of these spoons are frequently thinned at the bottom to facilitate heating or melting the contents over a flame before application. Several known examples have spouts or perforations to allow the heated medicine to be poured into an affl ...click for details

Fragmentary Roman Medical / Cosmetic Spatula Probe Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Roman: Bronze: Pre AD 1000 item# 591832
click for details		Janus Antiquities (330) 612-3957 $75
Almost every medical writer of antiquity mentions the spathomele, or spatula probe, in their texts. These tools consist of a long shaft with a rounded point at one end and a spatula at the other. This variety of spatula probe is known as a cyathiscomele, a variety of spathomele in which the spatula blade is curved or bowl-shaped, not flat. The famous Roman medical writer Galen (130-200 A.D.) pointed out that this type of instrument was used by a wide variety of people, including surgeons for pro ...click for details

Excellent Roman Iron Probe & Ear Cleaner Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Roman: Bronze: Pre AD 1000 item# 510984
click for details		Janus Antiquities (330) 612-3957 $95
This is a fine example of a fairly common cosmetic implement used by the Romans for simple hygiene. The small scoop at one end was used to clean one's ears, while the pointed end served as a simple probe/scraper to help keep hands and fingernails clean. No Roman with enough wealth to own a cosmetic/toilet set would have been without a piece like this one! AGE: Roman, ca. 1st-4th centuries A.D. ...click for details

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