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Historical Archive: Iconographic Index of Objects depicted


Agricultural tools

Altars

Armor, through 5th c., 6th c.-c.1250
and general 13th c.
, c.1250 to present

Aspergillum

Augur

Axes, Hatchets as tools or weapons

Basins

Baskets

Beakers

Beds

Biers

Boats

Body Parts (independent, not fragments)

Bowls

Bows, Arrows, Quivers

Boxes

Braziers

Bread

Brooches being worn,
through 1150, 1150 to present

Buckets

Building tools

Candle Holders

Carrying straps, poles

Carts

Cauldrons

Censers

Chairs (utilitarian forms)

Chalices

Chariots

Chisel

Clubs, Maces, Stones as weapons

Commercial tools

Cornucopias

Cradles

Craft tools

Crowns and Diadems, through about 850,
mid 9th- to mid-12th c., c.1150-1300, 1300-
general 15th c. and c.1400
, 15th c.-present

Crown of Thorns

Croziers

Crucible

Cups

Desks

Dice

Dipper

Easel

Ewers

Fans

Fibulae being worn,
through 1150, 1150 to present

Flabella

Flail (threshing)

Flasks

Fonts

Footstools

Fountains

Furniture

Game boards and equipment

Grain sacks

Grills

Guns, explosives

Hammer

Hatchet

Hats and Gloves, through c.1160,
c.1160-c.1350, c.1350-c.1500, c.1500-present

Helmets, through 12th c., 13th c. to present

Heraldic Shields

Hoes

Horns, musical

Household items

Ink wells

Keys

Knives

Ladders

Lamps, Lanterns

Locks

Manacles

Manger

Mattocks

Meat hook

Menorahs

Millstones

Mirrors

Musical Instruments to 1200, 1200-present

Nails

Necklaces being worn

Nets

Pillory

Pincers, pliers

Plane, carpenter's plane

Pulleys

Pulpits

Purses, Money bags

Pyxides

Reading desks

Rope

Saddles donkey; horse through 12th c.;
horse 13th c. to present; other animals

Click to enlarge.
hat: Saint Adrian of
Nicomedia, wood and
polychrome, Flemish
c.1515, IMA 45.8


Click to enlarge.
ship: Louis the Pious
(814-40) silver denier,
reverse: M-G 330, Prou 63,
Dorestad, CdM


Scales

Scepters, similar rods through c.1250, c.1250-present

Scissors

Scourgs, flails as weapons

Scythes

Shells

Shepherds' crooks

Shields, through 5th c., 6th c.-c.1250
and general 13th c.
, c.1250 to present

Ships

Shovel

Sickles

Situlae

Skulls

Spears, lances

Spindle rods and whorls

Spit

Sponge

Stools

Styli, pens

Stools

Swords, long knives, daggars through late 12th c., 13th c.-present

Tables

Thrones, to c.1130, c.1130-c.1270, c.1270-present

Torches

Torcs being worn

Trindle

Trophies

Trough

Weapons without their own pages

Wells

Windmills

Wine jars

Wreaths

Yokes