Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | MF 7945 | |
Title: | BYZANTINE BRONZE FORK | |
Category Code: | MF | |
Object Number: | 7945 | |
Description: | Byzantine bronze fork with 2 tines, each rhomboidal in section, linked at top by horseshoe-shaped element with flaring tips at top of tines; above, a handle consisting of an upside down, short triangle and a tall, narrow triangular tang which would have been inserted into a handle of different material. Previously published as a bifurcated probe. | |
Material: | Bronze | |
Condition: | Missing parts. Single frgt., complete except for ends of both tines. | |
Dimensions Actual: | T00.002 (tine) | |
Dimensions Preserved: | L00.100 | |
Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
Chronology: | Late Byzantine, coins at least late 11-early 12th c. | |
Area: | Forum north central | |
Context: | NB179 P14 | |
Bibliography: | Corinth 12, cat. 1380; Salonica exhibit, 2001; Parani, Bulletin of Christian Arch. Soc. 2010 (4.31), p. 157, footnote 108. | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Davidson, Corinth 12, 1952 Monument: Forum north central Basket: NB179 P14 Notebook Page: NB 179, spread 12 (pp. 13 - 14) |