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Hair parter (gravoir) (Back)

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Subject
Secular.

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Saint-Denis, Unité d'archéologie de la Ville

Inv. 26.405.12

Ivory or bone

Height: 112 mm
Width: 16 mm
Depth: 9 mm

Standing figure, possibly originally holding a book.

Museum's opinion 2014: 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: upper part of the figure, including the head; point of the hair parter.

Provenance
Found in a domestic garbage dump in an area north of the Saint-Denis basilica, in the Croult alluvium.

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