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Notes on a Group of Medical and Surgical Instruments found near Kolophon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Richard Caton
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This set of instruments and the large beaker were found about three years ago near the site of Kolophon in Ionia. The objects are thirty-seven in number. With two exceptions all are of bronze. The blades of the knives were originally of steel, but this metal has in each case been almost destroyed by oxidation. The date is uncertain—it may have been before the Christian era but is more probably the first or second century A.D. The glass beaker belongs to a type which is said to occur so late as the fourth century.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 34 , November 1914 , pp. 114 - 118
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1914

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1 ‘They were formerly in the possession of the late Alfred O. Van Lennep, Dutch Vice-Consul at Smyrna, whose life-long connection with the large estate owned by his family near Kolophon gave him exceptional knowledge as to finds made in that district. He told me that he knew these objects to have been unearthed all together, not long before the spring of 1912, at some spot in that neighbourhood; exactly where this was he did not know. His scrupulous accuracy makes this, in my opinion, a satisfactory certificate of origin. The set belongs to the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, U.S.A.’ [Note by W. H. Buckler.]

2 Plutarch, Precepta ger. reipub. xxvi. 7.Google Scholar

3 Scholiast on Theocritus ii. 36.

4 Macrobius, , Sat. v. 19.Google Scholar

5 Hipp. περὶ κεϕ. τρωμ. (Van der Linden), xxviii.

6 Celsus, viii. 3.

7 Galen (Kühn), x. 445.

8 Hipp. περὶ γυν. ϕυσ. (Van der Linden), xxxvi.

9 Galen (Kühn), ii. 581.