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LOT 0764
Roman Medical Instrument, Stylus and Spatula Group
3RD-5TH CENTURY A.D.
8 5/8 x 12 5/8 in. (750 grams total, 22 x 32 cm).
Comprising: a leaf-shaped bone spatula with pointed tang; stylus with twisted grip and median baluster, rectangular head with erasing blade; slender bronze probe (cyathiscomele) with one pointed end, small measuring spoon to the other and median baluster with incised pellets; mounted in a glass-fronted wooden case. [No Reserve]
ProvenancePrivate collection, USA, formed in the 1980s.
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Roman and Later Artefact Collection
1st-20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Including a bifid vessel handle with coiled finial, buckles, belt-plaques; harness fittings, key-wards and other items. 646 grams total, 1.6-13.6 cm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. -
Romano-British Grey Ware Vessel
2nd-3rd century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Squat ceramic jug with dimple base, broad shoulder, flared mouth and single strap handle. 188 grams, 13 cm wide
Found UK. From the collection of a late East Anglian teacher and antiquarian who retired to the Isle of Wight in Hampshire, UK. He amassed a large collection of objects between the 1960s-1980s. -
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Roman Inscribed Wooden Wax Tablet, a Legal Document
2nd-3rd century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £5,460
An untranslated reused tablet with a recessed panel with traces of more than 15 lines with the remains of letters written in cursive script, originally the panel was covered by a layer of wax, with a stylus the writer scratched the text into the soft wax and often also into the wooden ground, as such tablets were normally reused several times, traces of different texts can be found on the wooden surface, four lines of large inked text to verso, a record of a transaction in a formulaic legal language; either from a legal document comprising two (diptychon) or three (triptychon) panels; pierced three times for attachment. 20.6 grams 13 x 13 cm
From an important London collection since 1975. Accompanied by a collection of eight 1970s photographs of the the tablet.
The contract follows the standard Roman legal formulae.
