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Historical Archive: 12th century, not more precisely dated, part 1


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horn box with bone lid, 8th-12th c., Sens CT TC.C'3. For another view see Sens.
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animal interlace plaque, 9th-12th c. Russia (Kievan Rus), MSHM
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miniature free-blown glass cup with pinched decoration, 10th-12th c. Egypt, KM 1968.02.0067
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mold-blown glass flask with pinched decoration, 10th-12th c. Egypt, KM 1969.03.0038
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'seal of St. Servatius', jasper intaglio, 10th-12th c. Byzantine, Maastricht, Sint Servaas treasury. For reverse see Maastricht.
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pendant cross, bronze/enamel, 10th-13th c., Novgorod AM
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knucklebone on chain, 10th-14th c., Novgorod AM
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glass spearhead flask, Syria? 11th-12th c., KM 1968.02.0152
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Reliquary icon: frame silver gilt on wood, Constantinople 11th/12th c.; Nativity ivory, Venice?, 12th/13th c.; conversion to reliquary with horn 14th/15th-c. Germany. Louvre OA 11399. This work has its own page.
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ampulla from the Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem: Anastasis, lead, late 11th-12th c., CMA 1999.234
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gold rings with filigree and granulation; Egypt, Syria, or Iran 11th-12th c., BM 1954,0412.1 and AF2448. For another view see BM.
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ivory chess bishop in the form of elephant and rider, Afrasiab Uzbekistan, 11th-12th c., BM 1980,0730.1. For additional views see BM.
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Anastasis, jasper or haematite, 11th-12th c., MSHM GIM 53151/73, OK 10965 (269), MSHM
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Rosette Casket, wood/ivory/bone, Italo-Byzantine, 11th-12th c., Arezzo MS, which has its own page
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Urnes style animal interlace fibula, silver, 11th-12th c.?, Leijre LEOPX106
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cross encolpion, copper alloy?: Crucifixion, Kiev c.1000-1250, MSHM
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cross encolpion, copper alloy?: Virgin and Child, Kiev c.1000-1250, MSHM
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cross encolpion with hinged fitting, copper alloy?: Virgin and Child, Kiev c.1000-1250, MSHM
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cross encolpion, copper alloy?: engraved Virgin and Child, Kiev c.1000-1250, MSHM
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Byzantine pectoral cross, silver, 11th-13th c., MRAH ACO.76.1.1
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Byzantine pectoral cross with St. George, copper alloy, 11th-13th c., MRAH ACO.75.1.3
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Military saints with spears and shields, Byzantine schist icon, 11th-13th c., Cluny Cl.21602
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double cross in foliage pendant from Czernowitz, silver, 11th-13th c., KHM VIIa 269a
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double cross pendant from Czernowitz, silver/niello, 11th-13th c., KHM VIIa 269b
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pendant from Czernowitz, rock crystal/silver, 11th-13th c., KHM VIIa 174
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dead Christ, steatite pendant, 11th-13th c., MSHM
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pendant with rattling chains, 11th-13th c. East Slavic, MSHM
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John the Baptist, steatite? Novgorod 11th-13th c., MSHM
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Caen, church of Saint-Étienne, 11th-14th c., which has its own exterior and interior pages.
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pendant cross, non-ferrous metal, 11th-14th c., Novgorod AM
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Baptistery of St. John, Florence, 11th-14th c., which has its own pages.
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cross, non-ferrous metal, 11th-15th c., Novgorod AM
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bone stylus, 11th-15th c. Novgorod, Novgorod AM
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textile, Pre-Columbian Chancay culture, Late Intermediate Period c.1000-1476, Imola
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Heinrichskelch, 12th c. German metalwork with Fatimid crystal cup c.1000, Munich Reisdenz Schatzkammer. For another view see Munich.
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Liturgical sandals from Stavelot, leather with silk, 12th c. prob. Italy, MRAH 1825. For detail see MRAH.
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"Shroud of St. Potentien", silk, 12th c. Islamic, Sens CT. This work has its own page.
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Faucet with peacock spigot and lion-headed spout (poss. fr. fountain), bronze, 12th-c. Iran, UMMA 1959/1.114
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bracelet, silver with gilt, Scandinavia, 12th c., KremlinArch
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Gryphon from S. Bartolomeo al Carmine, Siena, limestone, 12th c., SPN 1.B.S.n.128
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steatite Pentecost, Constantinople 12th c., Vat 61173
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steatite Virgin w child, 12th c., Byzantine east: Armenia? Vat 61177
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judicial scene, St. Stephen: copper, 12th c.? Vat 61919