Lot 0229

ROMAN BRONZE SURGICAL SCISSORS

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Ca. 100-300 AD A rare surgical implement fashioned into a scissrors from bronze with two large sheer blades. For a comparable see University of Virginia 00157. Spurlock Museum of World Cultures. 1916.07.0015. Size: L:115mm / W:34mm ; 17.11g Provenance: Private UK collection; from an old London collection formed in the 1980s.