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Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Side)

Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Side)
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Front

Side

Front

Front and back

Subject
Secular.

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Southampton, Southampton City Council Arts and Heritage

SOU 122.184

Bone

Height: 87 mm

Standing lady.

Hall 2001: 13th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round, with lower relief on the back.

Comments
The two converging diagonal lines at the back suggest the presence of a veil, which confirms the identification of the figure as female.

Provenance
Found in 1972 on the St Michael's house site in Southampton.

Bibliography
A. MacGregor, Bone, Antler, Ivory and Horn. The Technology of Skeletal Materials since the Roman Period (London and Sydney, 1985), p. 170, n. 5.
M. A. Hall, 'An Ivory Knife Handle from the High Street, Perth, Scotland: Consuming Ritual in a Medieval Burgh', in Medieval Archaeology 45 (2001), pp. 169-188 (p. 176).


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