Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: part of the pendant sleeve on the right arm and part of the left arm; large piece at the back, in the lower part. Chipped around the base, at the front and on the side. Horizontal crack across the waist. Face damaged.

Comments
Damascened decoration (interlace?) on the blade with inlaid silver thread (only remaining on one side and on the wide edge of the blade).

Provenance
Found at the Orgueil site in Mauroux (Lot) in 1982; private collection, France (in 2012).

Bibliography
G. Démians d'Archimbaud, Les fouilles de Rougiers (Var), Contribution à l'archéologie de l'habitat rural médiéval en pays méditerranéen (Paris, 1980), pp. 433-438.
Dossiers d'Archéologie 120 (October 1987): Toulouse et sa région.
Archéologie et vie quotidienne aux XIIIe-XIVe siècles en Midi-Pyrénées, exhibition catalogue, Toulouse, Musée des Augustins, 7 March-31 May 1990, no. 359.
Plaisirs et manières de table aux XIV et XVème siècles, exhibition catalogue, Toulouse, Musée des Augustins, 23 April-29 June 1992, no. 220.
J.-L. Flandrin, C. Lambert, C. Huyghens, F. Danrigal, Fêtes gourmandes au Moyen Age (Paris, 1998).