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LOT 0967
Late Roman Bronze Medical Instrument
4TH CENTURY A.D.
11 1/8 in. (18.2 grams, 28.2 cm).
Comprising a long twisted shaft with a barbed finial and a leaf-shaped spatulate implement at the other end.
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market.
Private collection, Suffolk.
Cf. Perk, H., Anatolia Ancient Period Medicine Instruments, Halük Perk Medicine Museum Collection, Istanbul, 2012, p.41, for a similar but not identical scalpel; cf. also Bray, W.A., 'The Surgeon and his knife' in Archives of Surgery, Volume II, April 1961, pp.159-170, fig.4, for similar Roman surgical knives.
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