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Hair parter (gravoir) (Front)

Hair parter (gravoir) (Front)
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Subject
Secular.

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Saint-Denis, Unité d'archéologie de la Ville

Inv. 26.410.87

Ivory

Height: 122mm
Width: 13 mm

Standing hooded man holding an unidentified object; fashionable dress.

Museum's opinion 2013: end of the 14th-beginning of the 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Found in a domestic garbage dump in an area north of the Saint-Denis basilica, in the Croult alluvium in 1991.

Bibliography
Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc, ed. by B. Wheeler and C. T. Wood (New York, 1996), fig. 12.


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