Spoon
A silver spoon with a mandolin-shaped bowl. The circumference of the bowl is decorated with a notched groove and a floral and foliate pattern comprising one bud and four leaves. The leaf incisions appear to have been filled with niello. The bowl extends to an elaborately engraved stem with an inscription reading 'GALLIKNI' also filled with niello. The stem terminates in a circular-section, waisted expansion with flat, circular end-plate.
A parallel for the spoon can be found in a cremation grave in Köln-Bickendorff dating to the end of the third century AD (Fremersdorf 1926/7 Wallraf-Richartz Jahrb. 3/4, 1ff)
Quantity
1
Weight
36.75 g
Length
11 cm
Width
2 cm
Material
Silver
Hoard
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Reference
Comment
Inventory no: 66.0005,04
