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Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

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Secular.

Repository Institution
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Copenhagen, Nationalmuseet

Inv. D 998

Height: 88 mm
Width: 20 mm
Depth: 6 mm

Standing king with a hawk on his wrist; crown.

Bencard 1975: c. 1250-1350.
Museum’s opinion 2013: c. 1300.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: fragment in the lower part of the piece, at the front.

Provenance
Found in Roskilde (Gottorpsvaenge) in 1875 during archaeological excavations.

Bibliography
M. Bencard, ‘Om et middelalderligt knivskaft fra Ribe’, in Fra Ribe Amt (1975), pp. 36-61, no. 3.

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