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Eating implement, folding, with three-pronged fork, spatula, pick, spike and knife.
As well as a knife, spoon, and fork, this implement provides a spike, spatula and small pick. The spike might have helped in extracting the meat from snails, and the spatula in poking sauce out of narrow-necked bottles: the pick could have served as a tooth-pick. While many less elaborate folding knives survive in bronze, this one’s complexity and the fact that it is made of silver suggest it is a luxury item, perhaps a useful gadget for a wealthy traveller.
Associated department: Antiquities
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2020) "Compound utensil"
Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/70534 Accessed: 2021-01-17 03:52:15
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