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Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

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Subject
Secular.

Repository Institution
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Szczecin, Museum Narodowe w Szczecinie

Inv. DA/3/20/MNS

Metal (remains of the blade);stag horn

Height: 69 mm

Standing figure with a hawk on the wrist; figure feeding a hawk.

Bencard 1975: c. 1250-1350.
Museum's opinion 2014: probably 2nd half of the 13th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: head.
Deep crack in the lower part of the piece.

Provenance
Found in 1951 during archaeological excavations on Slotsbanken, Szczecin.

Bibliography
M. Bencard, ‘Om et middelalderligt knivskaft fra Ribe’, in Fra Ribe Amt (1975), pp. 36-61, no. 21.
E. Kowalczyk-Heyman, 'Anthropomorph verzierte mittelalterliche Messergriffe in Polen', in Quaestiones Medii Aevi Novae 15 (2010), pp. 241–282.

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