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Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

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

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Oslo, Kulturhistorisk Museum - Oldsaksamlingen

Inv. C 23825

Walrus ivory

Height: 52 mm
Width: 18 mm
Depth: 13 mm

Figure with a hawk on the wrist.

Oslo 1930: 14th century (?).


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Very worn.
Missing: lower part of the body.

Provenance
Found in 1925 in Gamlebyen (Oslo) during archaeological excavations.

Bibliography
Norrøn Beinskurd. Benskulptur og hornarbeider i Norge og på Island ca 500-1850, exhibition catalogue, Oslo, Kunstindustrimuseet, February-March 1930, 1930, no. 70.
S. Grieg, Middelalderske byfund fra Bergen og Olso (Oslo, 1933), p. 245, fig. 215.
M. Bencard, Om et middelalderligt knivskaft fra Ribe, in Fra Ribe Amt (1975), pp. 36-61, no. 6.


Image

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