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Historical Archive: Bone not including bone relics within reliquaries horse head, bone, Magdalenian c.18,000-12,000 BCE, La Roche Lalinde, Dordogne, SMB MVFg Va 7216 Jericho plastered skull with cowrie shell eyes, Neolithic, Ashmolean. This work has its own page. bone horse, c.1000 BCE, Dyakovskaya culture, MSHM bone boar grip, c.1000 BCE, Dyakovskaya culture, MSHM bone gryphon head with ram's horns fr. Teishebaini Fortress, near Yerevan, 7th c. BCE, Hermitage 17774. For strict profile see Hermitage. bone spoon with predator head and quadruped on bowl, 6th-5th c. BCE South Urals nomads, MSHM miniature cubic dice, bone, Roman, BM 90/6-1/168 cubic die, bone, Roman, Forêt de Compiegne, MAN 14267 die in the form of a long hexagonal tube, bone, Roman, BM 71/9-10/2 bone dice from the Comarmond collection, Roman, BM rabbit or hare, numbered I, Roman ivory or bone game piece, CdM Froehner 97 Roman dolphin pendant, bone, MStA 1978.474. For other views see MStA. seal matrix or stamp with crocodile god, bone, from Soknopaiou (Dime, Egypt), prob. Roman period, KM 0000.02.1767. For another view see Kelsey. doll, bone, Rhodes, 125-50 CE?, Louvre MND 1397 nereid riding hippocamp, bone, 3rd-5th c., KHM X 293 doll, bone, Italy?, c.250-75 CE, Louvre MNE 191 Bactrian dice fr. Zar-tepe (Uzbekistan), bone and stone, late 3rd-4th c., Hermitage hair pin with human head, bone?, 4th c., Chelles buckle, bone, 6th c., Reims MSR plaque with tiger, gazelle, and lion, bone, Byzantine Egypt c.500, KM 1981.04.0037 Hercules clubs from Basel-Kleinhüningen grave 126, bone, Merovingian, HMB 1934. 250 bone comb with miniature Anglo-Saxon grave goods from Girton College, Cambridge, CMAA Z.18060/D.1924.25 Anglo-Saxon game pieces from Taplow, bone and copper alloy, 6th-7th c., BM 1883,1214.7. For single piece see BM. Adalricus reliquary, bone and lead on wood, 8th c., Diocesan Museum Sion. This work has its own page. horn box with bone lid, 8th-12th c., Sens CT TC.C'3. For another view see Sens. needle and spindle rods from Dorestad, bone, Carolingian, Leiden Merovingian rock crystal spindle whorl from Rhenen Donderberg grave 413 (Leiden Rh 413), fitted on to Carolingian bone spindle rod from Dorestad, Leiden Anglo-Saxon and Viking-style bone combs, 9th c., from Marlowe Arcade site, Canterbury, CHM smoothing board? 9th-10th c. whalebone, fr. Grytøy, Trondenes, Bergen male figure with cross, bone, 9th-11th c. Byzantine Egypt, KM 1966.01.0102 cylinder seal (?) with male saints or bishops, bone, 9th-11th c. Byzantine Eygpt, KM 1966.01.0109. This work has its own page. Viking knife, bone? 10th c., Castle Street Canterbury, CHM Viking game materials, left: glass pieces and *bone dice fr. Nes, Hamarøy, Nordland; right: amber pieces fr. Gunnarshaug, Karmøy, Rogaland; Bergen. Not available in high resolution. knucklebone on chain, 10th-14th c., Novgorod AM game pieces fr. Gjermundbu Farm, bone? c.950-1000, OHM. For helmet from same grave see OHM. Veroli Casket, ivory and bone, mid to late 10th c., V&A 216-1865. This work has its own page. bone game piece with wading bird, western Europe 11th c., Hermitage Rosette Casket, wood/ivory/bone, Italo-Byzantine, 11th-12th c., Arezzo MS, which has its own page bone stylus, 11th-15th c. Novgorod, Novgorod AM reliquary, sides bone, top ivory, c.1000-1050, Schn B159. For other views see Schn. flute or whistle fr. Lady Wootton's Green Canterbury, leg bone of a crane, 12th c., CHM bone mirror case, 12th c., MoL 4954 bone terminal fr. Norman Staircase Canterbury, Norman (prob. 12th c.), CHM. For another view see CHM. 12th-c. bone flute and late 14th/early 15th-c. bone whistle, MAHSD Adoration of the Magi, whalebone, c.1120-50, V&A 142-1866, which has its own page medieval liturgical comb, bone, from Herøy church, Nordland, OHM T18223, loan from NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet i Trondheim. For detail see OHM. knife handle shaped as woman with book, bone, 15th c., Scandinavia?, Louvre OA 12175 Our Lady of the Sign, Deesis, saints: bone/silver gilt/turquoise/glass, 16th c., Novgorod AM Deesis, Annunciation, saints: bone/silver gilt/base metal, 16th c., Novgorod AM toy guillotine, bone, late 18th to 19th c., Musée Carnavalet Paris. For other views see Carnavalet.