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HoB 388: Bronze spoon or spatula. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Bronze spoon or spatula
- Date
- Context: last quarter of 8th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- M70.005
- Material
- Bronze/Copper Alloy
- Object Type
- Metalwork
- Metalwork Type
- Cosmetic or Surgical Implement
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian III - South Side
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W5 - W8 / S112 - S116 floor *97
- Findspot
- W8-5 / S112-116 *97 floor
- Description
- Long, thin shaft of bronze. One end knobbed and the other flattened into a spatula shape with two raised bands above it.
- Dimensions
- W. 0.002, L. 0.108, W. of spatula 0.007.
- Comments
- Waldbaum (Sardis M8) lists this as Roman–Early Byzantine zinc bronze in the analysis table (V.3) and without attribution in her catalogue. Since copper alloys with a significant percentage of zinc are known from finds of the same era at Gordion, it is not necessary to reject it, even if it is unusual, without better reason. Recent research suggests that electrode cleaning methods can introduce zinc to an item. See Ramage 2011.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Sardis M8, cat. no. 642.
- Author
- AR