Cyathiscomele University of South Florida -- Tampa Campus Library -- Special Collections Dept. manuscripttext eng Slender, delicate item has a small olivary end supported on a solid narrow shaft. Shaft increases in diameter slightly as it approaches the spoon. Between shaft and spoon is a bead inscribed with semicircles. An unadorned bead encircles the shaft just above the bowl of the spoon. The bowl of the spoon suggests a long oval shape, creased along the spine into a V-shape. The bowl of the spoon is 5.4 cm; the tip of the spoon is broken off. John Stewart Milne, Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times, 1907, p. 61-63, pl. XV, no. 1. Lawrence J. Bliquez, Roman Surgical Instruments, 1994, p. 48-50; also p. 147, no. 155, ill. 82. See http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/library/historical/artifacts/roman_surgical/ for spatula probe. Slender, delicate item has a small olivary end supported on a solid narrow shaft. Shaft increases in diameter slightly as it approaches the spoon. Between shaft and spoon is a bead inscribed with semicircles. An unadorned bead encircles the shaft just above the bowl of the spoon. The bowl of the spoon suggests a long oval shape, creased along the spine into a V-shape. The bowl of the spoon is 5.4 cm; the tip of the spoon is broken off. Condition: Fair. Tip of spoon is broken off Surgical instruments and apparatus Medical instruments and apparatus Pharmacy paraphernalia Farid Karam M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection
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Slender, delicate item has a small olivary end supported on a solid narrow shaft. Shaft increases in diameter slightly as it approaches the spoon. Between shaft and spoon is a bead inscribed with semicircles. An unadorned bead encircles the shaft just above the bowl of the spoon. The bowl of the spoon suggests a long oval shape, creased along the spine into a V-shape. The bowl of the spoon is 5.4 cm; the tip of the spoon is broken off.
John Stewart Milne, Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times, 1907, p. 61-63, pl. XV, no. 1. Lawrence J. Bliquez, Roman Surgical Instruments, 1994, p. 48-50; also p. 147, no. 155, ill. 82. See http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/library/historical/artifacts/roman_surgical/ for spatula probe.
Slender, delicate item has a small olivary end supported on a solid narrow shaft. Shaft increases in diameter slightly as it approaches the spoon. Between shaft and spoon is a bead inscribed with semicircles. An unadorned bead encircles the shaft just above the bowl of the spoon. The bowl of the spoon suggests a long oval shape, creased along the spine into a V-shape. The bowl of the spoon is 5.4 cm; the tip of the spoon is broken off.
Condition: Fair. Tip of spoon is broken off
Surgical instruments and apparatus
Medical instruments and apparatus
Pharmacy paraphernalia
Farid Karam M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection