Spoon

spoon is one put down from table constituted from one concave shovel used oval in order to collect and to carry to the mouth foods not compact liquids or.

The name the drift from the Latin cochlea (scroll perhaps) because the first rudimentale spoon was one shell (from which the name). More similar to the known shape today they were the spoons in use in the ancient Rome: ligula and cochlear (before in bone and then in metal, in some cases with the appuntito manico that could serve in order to open molluschi or to pierce eggs). In some cases the manico had a double tip and came used with the same functions with which today it is used fork.

In the course of the time they have been produced spoons of important artistic interest; exemplary and they are conserved to Civic museum of Venice, to Louvre and to Victoria and Albert Museum of .

With the time the spoon has endured an evolution: in the manico has been progressively lengthened, while in the spoon has assumed shapes and dimensions diversified based on the use to which it was destined.

Beyond that in order to feed itself, the spoon has had (and has) also one liturgica function. Until they existed some to the thinnest holes in order to make to pass the wine during putting. Spoons from incense still exist in the churches of roman catholic ritual, while in the Greek ritual, copto and siriaco a spoon exists gives communion.

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