Roman Forks

Roman table forks are very rare and nearly all from unstratified contexts but a number can be identified as Roman by comparing the form and style of their handles with those of Roman spoons and thus dated to the third, fourth or fifth centuries AD. Some were for surgical or other uses. Roman netting needles have sometimes been wrongly identified as forks. There is no literary or pictorial evidence for Roman table forks. Forks continued in use in the Eastern Empire and were revived in Italy in the late Middle Ages. An appendix lists those examples known to the author

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• Bronze Spoons and Spatulae in the Kahramanmaraş Museum

  Open Access•Taylan DOĞAN•International Journal of Ancient…•2023

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• The Uses of South Gaulish Terra Sigillata on the Roman Table. A study of nomenclature and vessel function

  Open Access•Geoffrey B Dannell•Internet Archaeology•2018

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• IV.— The Spoon and its history; its form, material, and development, more particularly in England

  Open Access•Charles Jackson, C J Jackson•Archaeologia•1892

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• Roman doctors and their instruments

  Open Access•Ralph Jackson•Journal of Roman Archaeology•1990

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• The Roman combination knife and spoon

  Open Access•David Sherlock•Journal of Roman Archaeology•2003

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• Roman Antiquities at Baden (Switzerland) and Bregenz

  Bunnell Lewis•Archaeological Journal•1907

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• The Antiquities from Lanuvium in the Museum at Leeds and elsewhere

  Open Access•A M Woodward•Papers of the British School at…•1929

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