2000.285: Cosmetic or Surgical Implement
Tools and Equipment
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2000.285
- Title
- Cosmetic or Surgical Implement
- Classification
- Tools and Equipment
- Work Type
- implement
- Date
- 1st millennium BCE-1st millenium CE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe
- Period
- Roman period
- Culture
- Roman
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/182191
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Bronze
- Technique
- Cast
- Dimensions
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14.5 cm (5 11/16 in.)
5.98 g
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Gift of Dr. Jerome Eisenberg, 2000.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Dr. Jerome M. Eisenberg
- Accession Year
- 2000
- Object Number
- 2000.285
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
- Long bronze probe with flattened end. The shaft thickens for one-third of its length and then meets with a roughly rhomboidal bead-like ornament. The shaft continues on the other side of this, tapering to a sharp point. Separate groups of rings decorate the shaft on either side of the rhomboidal bead. The bead itself is incised with bisected diamonds on each of its four faces.
Subjects and Contexts
- Roman Domestic Art
Verification Level
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