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Superb Roman Cosmetic Spoon & Probe browse these categories for related items... Directory: Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Roman: Pre AD 1000: Item # 591837
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This exceptionally fine 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. This piece is finer than most and is likely to have been a cosmetic spoon. It features nice decorative ribbing and an eyelet set into the handle. Further, the probe point at the opposite end is intact, which Milne believes was used in domestic contexts to extract dyes from shellfish.
For a similar piece with a pouring perforation, see J.S. Milne’s “Surgical Instruments in Greek & Roman Times,” Plate XIX, #4. This spoon is reputedly from Roman Egypt and was formerly in the collection of the late Leighton Wilkie. AGE: Roman, ca. 200-600 A.D. CONDITION: Intact and quite nice. DIMENSIONS: 4.5 inches long (12 cm) |
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