Romano-British spatula, c.1st-2nd century AD
Bronze
Length: 15.8cm
11411
Solid bronze spatula, used as a medical implement or as part of an apothecary or toiletry set. The long thin shaft has a flattened leaf-shaped terminal at one end, and a bulbous, pointed terminal at the other. Intact.
Provenance
Patrick John Casey (1935-2016), Reader in Archaeology, Durham University 1972-2000Literature
Compare John Yonge Akerman, An Archaeological Index to Remains of Antiquity of the Celtic, Romano-British, and Anglo-Saxon Periods (London, 1847), pl.XIII, no.10. Also see an example in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA, accession number 17.230.93.
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