Ave!

Medical, Ligula, Spatulate-type, c. 1st-3rd Cent, RARE!

Copper alloy; 165mm/7.9gm!

Con/ As Cast or Fabricated, green patina with bronze highlights.

Seller's Note/ Roman surgeons used such instruments for multiple uses during their operations. The broad end served as either a surgical probe, or spread healing unguents after the wound was sewn closed or, when heated to a high degree, to cauterize interior injuries. OUCH!

Delicate surgeon tools such as this example, rarely, if ever, survive in the ground without becoming plow-twisted or completely broken. Ours arrived all twisted (see the final photo) but has now been professionally conserved to its original state.