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Historical Archive: Shields and Armor 6th c. to about 1250, including unspecified 13th c. Representations follow surviving examples. See also representations of Heraldic Shields. bird of prey head fr. Åker, shield plaque, bronze/gilt/garnet/white metal/iron, c.600? OHM C4903 pendant containing chain mail fragment, from Zamárdi grave 517, 7th c., Kaposvár. For accompanying objects see this grave's page. Gokstad tent posts and shield, from burial dated 895-903, OsloVSM shields: Bacchus and Ariadne, ivory pyxis, 5th-6th c., Trier? KHM X41, which has its own page armor: Alaric II the Visigoth (484-507), sapphire, Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum. This work has its own page. armor: Thrasamund (496-523), silver Vandal 50 denari, Hermitage OH-З-91683 ivory pyxis with Resurrection, 6th c., eastern Mediterranean, VHM, loan from Sion CT. This work has its own page. warrior (ruler?) crowned by Genius/Victory, ivory, 6th c. Egypt: Ambo, Aachen cathedral. The ambo and cathedral have their own pages. shields: buckle, belt of St. Caesarius, ivory, early 6th c., Arles. This work has its own page. armor: prob. Gundomar II (524-32), Burgundian pseudo-imperial gold tremissis of Justinian, obverse, Hermitage. For same ruler's reverse see Hermitage. shield: Justinian and retinue, apse wall mosaic, Ravenna, Church of San Vitale, 527-48. This work has its own interior and exterior pages. Barberini Diptych: triumph of Justinian, ivory 527-65, Louvre OA 9063. This work has its own page. cuirass, shield: solidus of Justinian I, gold, 527-65, DO BZC. For detail see DO coins. cuirass, shield: Theudebert I (Frankish king 534-48), gold solidus, SMBMünz 18202273 armor and shield, guards: Cathedra of Maximian, ivory, 546-56, RavArchMus, which has its own page David and Goliath, Constantinople 629–30, Met 17.190.396, which has its own page with details of shields and armor flask, Nagyszentmiklós treasure, gold, 700-750?, KHM VIIb. For more views and companion works see Nagyszentmiklós. shields: Harrach diptych, ivory with glass c.800, Schn 1012, which has its own page Meeting Abner and Joab at Lake Gabaon, ivory c.870, Louvre MR 374 shield: Arnulf (reg. 887-99) seal: 896 Aug. 2, BHA KS81 Putto and panther ivory, 10th c. Byzantine, Louvre AC 865 shield: Louis the Child (reg. 899-911) seal: 905 Feb. 14, BHA KS97 shield: Louis the Child (reg. 899-911) seal: 911 June 16, BHA KS101 shields: Maries at the Sepulchre ivory, 1st half of 10th c., V&A 380-1871 shields, armor: St. Gall or north Italy, 10th c., MAAB. For full panel and Crucifixion see MAAB. Veroli Casket, ivory and bone, mid to late 10th c., V&A 216-1865. This work has its own page. Basilewsky Situla, ivory, 980-81, V&A A.18-1933. This work has its own page. Rosette Casket, wood/ivory/bone, Italo-Byzantine, 11th-12th c., Arezzo MS, which has its own page with more shields Military saints with spears and shields, Byzantine schist icon, 11th-13th c., Cluny Cl.21602 soldier saint, Byzantine ivory c.1000, Schn B128 shield: gold altar frontal, early 11th c., Aachen cathedral. The altar and cathedral have their own pages. shield: Christ before Pilate, Bernward Doors, bronze, Hildesheim 1007-15. This work has its own page. Crucifixion and Lamentation, Byzantine steatite, 12th c., Hermitage bone mirror case, 12th c., MoL 4954 Christ crowning SS. George and (?)Theodore Stratelates, steatite, 12th c., MSHM GIM 77091, OK 13176 (270), MSHM Abdinghof portable altar, 1115-30, DMP PR50, which has its own page with more shields right roundel: Lisbjerg Altar frontal/retable/arch c.1135-50, gilded copper, NMD D287. This work has its own page. Seal of William, count of Nevers (modern cast), 1140. AN D859 Seal of Raoul, count of Vermandois (modern cast), c. 1146. AN D1010 Stavelot altar, gilt bronze with enamel and rock crystal, c.1150-60, MRAH 1590. This work has its own page with additional examples. ivory cross, c.1150-60, Cloisters 63.12, which has its own page. Novgorod cathedral doors, bronze, prob. 1152-54. The doors have their own page with other shields. Stavelot Triptych, Mosan, c.1156-58, Morgan AZ001, which has its own page. armor, executioner: St. Valerie of Limoges reliquary, gilt copper/enamel, Limoges c.1175, Hermitage Ф-175. For oblique view see Hermitage. Pisa Cathedral doors, bronze, Bonannus of Pisa c.1180. This work has its own page. Seal of Pierre de Courtenai (modern cast), count of Nevers, 1184. AN D863 candle-stick in the form of a mounted knight, Lotharingia? late 12th c., KGM 85.56. For another view see KGM. Mina'i ware beaker with Shahnama story, Iran late 12th c., Freer F1928.2. This work has its own page. portal from Hylestad stave church, late 12th-early 13th c., OHM C4321, which has its own page St. Demetrios, stone (shale/schist?), late 12th-early 13th c., Byzantine? Novgorod AM buckle with fighting knights from Kígyóspuszta (Hungary), gold and niello, 13th c., HNM candle-stick in the form of a mounted knight from Mühlhausen/Thuringia, Niedersachsen? 13th c., KGM F139 silver bracteate of Philipp von Schwaben, c.1200, SMBMünz 18207560 candle holder in the form of a dragon eating a knight, bronze? early 13th c., Niedersachsen, WLM. For knight detail see WLM. equestrian seal of William Fitzhamor, jet intaglio, English early 13th c., BM 1978,1-2,1 top left: nave ceiling Tree of Jesse, 1200-50, which has its own page, St. Michael's, Hildesheim, which has its own pages font, copper alloy c.1226, Hildesheim Cathedral. This work has its own page with more armored figures and a shield. St. Maurice, sandstone c.1240-60, Magdeburg, which has its own page John the Baptist in prison, mosaic c.1240-1310, Baptistery of St. John, Florence. This work has its own pages. Holofernes' army devastating the vineyards outside Damascus, stained glass from the Sainte Chapelle, Paris, 1241/43-48, PMA 1930-24-2. For related glass with shields see PMA. Naumburg cathedral west choir c.1245-50 and windows 1245-60, which have theit own pages with more shields knight or saint: glass water bottle in the shape of pilgrim's flask, Syria c.1250-60, BM 1869,0120.3. This work has its own page.