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Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)
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Subject
Secular.

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Lund, Kulturen

Inv. KM 5157

Bone

Height: 89 mm

Standing youth with a hawk on his wrist.

Bencard 1975: c. 1250-1350.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Found in the 1890s during archaeological excavations in Lund.

Bibliography
R. Blomqvist, Medeltida svärd, dolkar och slidor funna i Lund. Kulturen, En årsbok (Särtryck ur Kulturen) (1937), pp. 105ff, fig. 17.
M. Bencard, ‘Om et middelalderligt knivskaft fra Ribe’, in Fra Ribe Amt (1975), pp. 36-61, no. 11.


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