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Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

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

Repository Institution
www.ajmao.org


Mahón, Museo de Menorca

Inv. 21456

Bone

Height: 85 mm
Width: 20 mm

Standing queen holding a book; crown.

CER.ES 2015: end of the 14th-beginning of the 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Worn.
Trace of contact with metal in the lower part of the piece.

Provenance
Found during archaeological excavations in 1981 at the Plaça de la Conquesta in Mahón in proximity of the church of Santa Maria.

Bibliography
Enciclopèdia de Menorca. Història de l´Art, ed. by G. Sintes Espasa, C. Andreu Adame, M. A. Hernández Gómez, vol. XVI (Mahón, 2004), p. 34, fig. 30.
Entry on CER.ES (Colecciones en red, Museos de España): http://ceres.mcu.es/pages/Main [consulted 09/06/2015].


Image

© Museo de Menorca, Mahón.

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