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Probe

Object Number:48-2-315
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Roman
Provenience: Tunisia
Carthage
Section:Mediterranean
Materials:Bronze
Length: 11.6 cm
Credit Line:Gift of Elise Biddle (Mrs. Harald) Paumgarten, 1948, 1948
Other Number:321 - Collector Number
L-2-236 - Old Loan Number

Description

Traces of green patina. End of the handle, as well as the end of the probe, is broken off. Thin round handle is attached to a spade-like probe by a tongue at the back.

Bibliography:

[Book] Warden, P. G. 1997. The Hilprecht Collection of Greek, Italic, and Roman Bronzes in the University of Pennsylvania Museum.. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 63-64, no. 224View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Thesis] Moore, Charlotte B. 1969. Description and analysis of the bronze and lead objects in the Herman V. Hilprecht Collection, the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 287-288, no. 193; p. 358, fig. 134View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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