Bronze scalpel/dissector
Unknown
1st–3rd century CE · Bronze · Greek and Roman Art
The instrument is a typical example of a Graeco-Roman surgeon's scalpel. One end serves as a leaf-shaped dissector, while the other forms a rectangular handles with a central wedge-shaped slot that originally held the iron or steel scalpel blade.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1st–3rd century CE
- Medium
- Bronze
- Culture
- Roman, Cypriot
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
