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Saint-Denis, Unité d'archéologie de la Ville

Inv. 16.423.2

Ivory

Height: 68 mm
Width: 25 mm
Depth: 10 mm

Seated male figure with a staff (probably Joseph, fragment of a Nativity scene); bench.

Museum's opinion 2014 (after unpublished opinion of D. Gaborit-Chopin): late 13th-early 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: red (lips), gold (trace of decorative pattern around the neck and along the hem of Joseph's robe.

Reverse
Flat, with deep horizontal scoring.

Provenance
Found in 1980 in a domestic garbage dump north of the basilica.

Bibliography
C. Héron, O. Meyer, 'L'environnement monumental du monastère de Saint-Denis', in Les Dossiers de l'Archéologie' 158 (March 1991), p. 84.

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