Ear spoon
Ear spoons are spoon-like cutlery for cleaning the ears, a type of curette .
In earlier times they were often used as toilet utensils with small tweezers connected to a small ring.
Ear spoons have been proven by finds since the Bronze Age . In Great Britain there are finds from Roman times as well as Anglo-Saxon ear spoons from the 9th century. Ear spoons from the time of the Vikings are known in Scandinavia .
In Dithmarscher Landesmuseum a silver cutlery cylinders with rack hooks and ear spoon from the period are on display at the 1600th
See also
literature
- Tweezers. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, ISBN 3-11-017219-4 .
Web links
Commons : Ear picks - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Footnotes
- ↑ Silver EAR SCOOP . In: The British Museum (Ed.): Portable Antiques Scheme . August.
- ↑ Cast EAR SCOOP . In: The British Museum (Ed.): Portable Antiques Scheme . August.
- ^ Anglo-Saxon Art in the Round: Animal Art . In: University of Cambridge (Ed.): Fitzwilliam Museum . August.
- ^ Kirsten Wolf: Daily life of the Vikings . Greenwood, 2004, ISBN 0-313-32269-4 , p. 76 .
- ^ Eve D'Ambra: Roman Women . Cambridge University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-81839-1 , pp. 116-17.