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Surgical instruments from a Roman shipwreck off Sicily

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David Gibbins
David Gibbins*
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Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ
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Excavation of a new Classical shipwreck, off the east coast of Siciliy, has provided the first find of a Roman surgeon's kit from a marine context.

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Antiquity , Volume 62 , Issue 235 , June 1988 , pp. 294 - 297
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1988

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