Bronze Age

Spatula

This bronze spatula consists of a long shaft with an olivary point at one end and a broad flat blade, oar-shaped and blunt-edged, at the other. It was a pharmaceutical, rather than strictly surgical, instrument. Other: 7 3/16in. (18.3cm)

Classification

Object type: Tool
Material: MetalCopper and bronze
Date: 3900 BC - 100 AD

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Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

From Cyprus

References

Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 4839, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Richter, Gisela M. A. 1915. Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes. no. 1757, p. 451, New York: Gilliss Press.McClees, Helen and Christine Alexander. 1933. The Daily Life of the Greeks and Romans: As Illustrated in the Classical Collections, 5th ed. pp. 123-24, fig. 152, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.McClees, Helen and Christine Alexander. 1941. The Daily Life of the Greeks and Romans: As Illustrated in the Classical Collections, 6th ed. pp. 123-24, fig. 152, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Identifiers

Accession no.: 74.51.5509, Metropolitan Museum of Art
In catalogues: Myres 1914, no. 4839
Richter 1915, no. 1757

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