Roman Medical Knife Group
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1st-3rd century AD. A mixed group comprising: a knife with bronze hexagonal-section columnar handle with spike finial, iron blade with single scooped edge, inlaid silver scale detailing to the facets; a knife with bronze facetted columnar handle, median baluster, domed pommel, hatched zigzags to the bolster, tapering single-edged iron blade; a scalpel with hooked iron single-edged blade, octagonal-section bronze handle with broad flat face forming a stand; a knife with double-edged leaf-shaped iron blade, octagonal-section handle with broad flat face forming a stand. See Milne, J.S. Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times, Oxford, 1907 for discussion. 315 grams total, 13-19cm (5 - 7 1/2"). From a home counties collection; formed 1970-1980. [4]
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Fine condition.
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Roman Medical Knife Group
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