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Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Back)
Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Back)
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Secular.

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Riga, Rīgas vēstures un kuģniecības muzejs

Inv. VRVM 179214/10

Bone

Height: 88 mm
Width: 19 mm

Youth with a hawk on his wrist; crown (?).

Museum's opinion 2014: Western Europe, 13th or 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: section in the lower left part of the piece and at the back.

Comments
Hollow.

Provenance
Found in Riga, during archaeological excavations at 17 Marstalu street, in 2004. Principal investigator: Martins Lusens (Architectural Investigation Group, Ltd.).

Bibliography
A. Caune, 'Archäologische Zeugnisse von den Kontakten Rigas mit westeuropäischen Ländern und Alt-Russ im 13.-14. Jh.', in The Hansa Town Riga as Mediator between East and West (Riga, 2009), pp. 19-27 (p. 22).


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