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Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)
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Riga, Rīgas vēstures un kuģniecības muzejs

Inv. ALBI

Bone

Height: 80 mm
Width: 15 mm

Standing king with a hawk on his wrist; crown.

Bencard 1975: c. 1250-1350.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Face and front of the figure damaged by extended burial.
Missing: lower part of the figure at the front.
Vertical crack in the lower part of the figure.

Provenance
Found in Riga in 1939 during archaeological excavations in Alberta Laukums (Albert Square). Principal investigator: Melita Vilsone (Museum of the History of Riga and Navigation).

Bibliography
M. Vilsone, Muzeja materiali Rigas vesturei. Rigas vestures un kugniecibas muzejs 1773-1973 [ The Museum of the history of Riga and Navigation 1773-1973] (Riga, 1973), pp. 81-175 (p.137).
L. Leciejewicz, ‘O pochodzeniu rogowej rzezby ze Wzgórza Zamkowego w Szczecinie’, in Studia archaeologica Pomeranica, ed. by F. J. Lachowicz (Koszalin, 1974), fig. 2 or 3.
M. Bencard, ‘Om et middelalderligt knivskaft fra Ribe’, in Fra Ribe Amt (1975), pp. 36-61, no. 22-23.
Rīgas arheoloģija 50. Rīgas arheoloģiskās izpētes rezultāti no 1938. līdz 1987 [50 years of Archaeology of Riga. The Results of the Archaeological Investigation in Riga from 1938 to 1987], exhibition catalogue, Riga, 1988, no. 29, 30.
I. Galvanovska, Rīgas vēstures un kuģniecības muzejs. Reprodukciju albums [Museum of the History of Riga and Navigation. Album of Reproductions] (Riga, 1990), no. 26, 27.
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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