Bad Homberg Roman Mouthpiece

Specimen Detail | SD356

Description: An internal shanked Roman mouthpiece

Findspot: Bad Homberg, Saalburg, Germany

Current Location: Saalburg Museum, Inv. p. 812

Citations: Jacobi 1897, 452 Fig. 62,7 (interpreted here as a medical instrument “for instilling oils or other liquids into open wounds”); Behn 1912, 44 f., Fig. 13 No. 5 (identified as a bucina mouthpiece) .

Similar objects: SD998, SD998