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Writing tablet, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; tablette à écrire; frise d'arcatures) (Back)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; tablette à écrire; frise d'arcatures) (Back)
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Front

Front

Subject
Religious.


Toulon, Service régional de l'archéologie du Var

Inv. 1914

Bone

Height: 54mm
Width: 30mm
Depth: 3-4mm

Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two angels holding candlesticks.

Catalogue 1981: late 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Reverse divided into 5 compartments, the central one being circular.

Object Condition
Surface damage on the front and back.

Provenance
Found during excavations at Rougiers (Var) which started in 1961.

Bibliography
G. Démians d'Archimbaud, 'Un village féodal, Rougiers' in Archeologia 21 (1968), pp. 28-33 (p. 33).
G. Démians d'Archimbaud, Les fouilles de Rougiers (Var), Contribution à l'archéologie de l'habitat rural médiéval en pays méditerranéen (Paris, 1980), p. 431 and fig 482, p. 524, no. 1.
Aujourd’hui le Moyen-Age. Archéologie et vie quotidienne. 1981-1983 : Sénanque/Marseille/Arles/Toulon/Perpignan/Montpellier/Nice/Gap, exposition itinérante organisée par le Laboratoire d'archéologie médiévale méditerranéenne, Aix-en-Provence, no. 597.


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