Richter, Gisela Marie Augusta, 1882-1972, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) · New York [The Gilliss Press] · leaf 495
th five moulded bands on the outside; on the bottom are moulded concentric circles. Roman period. Like the preceding this may have been used as eitheran inkstand or a dice-box. Height, 2 in. (5.1 cm.). Diameter, if in. (4.5 cm.). Date of purchase un-certain (before 1906). Unpublished. Crusty, green… … 1736 1737 SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS Our knowledge of ancient surgical instruments is derived both from thenumerous classical writers on medical subjects (from Hippokrates, wholived in the fifth century B.C., down to Paulus Aegineta in the sixth andseventh centuries A.D.), and from the actual specimens…
Bronzes · Art, Ancient
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