Gothic Ivories Project | Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Side)

Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Side)

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Subject
Secular.

Repository Institution
novgorodmuseum.ru

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Veliky Novgorod, The Novgorod State United Museum-Reserve

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Ivory

Height: 20 mm
Width: 57 mm

Griffin devouring a man.

Museum's opinion 2015: 14th-15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Found in Novgorod.

Bibliography
E. A. Rybinos, 'Novgorod's links with Western Europe', in The Archaeology of Novgorod, Russia: Recent Results from the Town and its Hinterland, ed. by M. Brisbane (Lincoln, 1992), pp. 196-204.
M. A. Hall, 'An Ivory Knife Handle from the High Street, Perth, Scotland: Consuming Ritual in a Medieval Burgh', in Medieval Archaeology 45 (2001), pp. 169-188 (p. 176).

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