古代ローマ人 ブロンズ ピンセット付きの医療用・化粧用セット - 30 mm

Ancient Roman Bronze Medical / Cosmetic Set with Tweezers

Culture / Period: Ancient Roman
Date / Period: 1st - 2nd century A.D.
Material: Bronze
Dimensions: 30 mm
Condition: Good condition

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Provenance information:
Object Registration ID: 847

The current owner (S.N.J. S.) purchased the medical / cosmetic set with tweezers from R.N. in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

The previous owner, R.N. from Rotterdam (the Netherlands), did not provide information regarding when the object entered the collection.

According to the previous owner, no information concerning the earlier ownership history of the object was available.

No further information concerning the earlier ownership history of the object was available.

Background Information:
This finely made bronze implement is a Roman cosmetic or medical toiletry tool dating to the 1st–2nd century A.D. It consists of a pair of spring tweezers attached to a suspension loop, allowing it to be carried as part of a personal grooming or medical set. Compact instruments of this type were common throughout the Roman Empire and are regularly found in military sites, urban settlements, and domestic contexts.

Tweezers were indispensable tools in Roman daily life. They were used for personal grooming, including the removal of unwanted hair, but also by physicians for minor medical procedures such as extracting splinters, cleaning wounds, or handling small dressings. Wealthier individuals often owned complete toiletry sets comprising tweezers, ear scoops, nail cleaners, and probes, suspended together from a ring for convenient carrying.

Roman bronze instruments were produced in specialised workshops using cast and forged components, then carefully finished to create practical, durable tools suitable for everyday use. Such sets were traded widely across the Empire, reaching regions including present-day Germany, France, Britain, and the Netherlands, illustrating the standardisation of Roman craftsmanship and personal hygiene practices.

Complete examples retaining both the suspension loop and functional tweezers are considerably less common than isolated grooming implements, making this an attractive representative of Roman personal equipment.