Bronze specimens of the
Instrumentum domesticum
from a private collection, formed in
Sicily, are published in this article.
- A group of 10 bronze-claps, of dubious usage (perhaps to hooked on to clothes, or to
hides, or to small bags
full
of spices), with punched stamps (winged thunderbolt/pot; snake-
head/headdress, letters of the alphabet, lion's face and bull-figure), chosen by the producer
or by the merchant.
- Bronze keys of Roman period and
of
Byzantine epoch
of
the type
of
little ring with little
articulated key, to which perhaps were associated sealing-rings (with personal names).
- Bronze buckles, of late or mediaeval epoch, with several ornamental motives.
Bronze implements with goads, perhaps parts of a whip for mules (reference to a passage
of the
Edictum de pretiis
of Diocletian).
