Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Part of the buckle is missing.

Comments
The total length of the belt is 1250mm.

Provenance
Said to have belonged to archbishop Absalon (d. 1201), founder of the Cistercian Abbey of Sorø Sorø. Recorded in the inventory of Sorø Abbey of 1556 and 1602; recorded in the inventories of Det kgl. Kunstkammer (The Royal Danish Kunstkammer) of 1674, 1689, 1690; after the Kunstkammer was dissolved the piece appeared in the inventory of Museum Regnum of 1696 and 1710, wherefrom it was obtained and entered in the inventory of Det kgl. Kunstmuseum (The Royal Danish Art Museum, 1825-1867) of 1825, in the inventory of Museet for Nordiske Oldsager (Museum of Northern Antiquities 1819-1892) of 1845, in the inventory of Nationalmuseet (The National Museum of Denmark, 1892-).

Bibliography
N. K. Liebgott, Elfenben - fra Danmarks Middelalder (Copenhagen, 1985), p. 74, fig. 68.
B. Gundestrup, Det Kongelige danske Kunstkammer 1737 (Esbjerg, 1991), vol. II, p. 319.