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Historical Archive: Object type, Genre Index 'Abrasax'/'Abraxas' gems and related magical items Altars Ampullae Aquamanilia Architecture and architectural sculpture/painting/mosaics in situ, through 11th c., 12th c., 13th c., c.1300-1450, c.1450-1750, c.1750-present Architectural sculpture not on its buildings through undefined Carolingian, 9th c. to c.1140 and undefined 12th c., mid 12th c. to present Arm bands Armillary sphere Ashtray Basins Beads Beakers Beds Belt hook Belt links, plaques Biccherne Book covers not including isolated parts, fragments Bowls Boxes Bracelets Bread Brooches through mid-6th c., mid-6th c. to present Buckets Buckles Building tools Cabinet Cameos to 11th c., 12th c. to present Candle holders Canopy elements Carts Cassone Cauldrons Cenotaphs through 4th c., 5th c. to present Censers Chalices Charters through Carloman of Bavaria 878, Louis III the Younger 881 to present Chests Clavendrier Clocks Clothing, cloth through 10th c., c.1000-present Coffee pot Coins to 814, 814-840, 840-present Combs Commercial tools Cosmetic containers Craft tools Crosses and corpora through 11th c., 12th c. to present Crowns, through 10th c., 11th-13th c., 14th c., 15th c.-present Croziers Cups Dice and Knucklebones Doors and door knockers Earrings Ewers Fans, flabella Faucet Flasks Fibulae through mid-6th c., mid-6th c. to present Fonts Fountains Frames, through 15th c., 16th c. to present Furniture Game boards, game pieces, and other game equipment Grave markers through 4th c., 5th c. to c.1350, c.1350-present Hair pins Helmets, through 12th c., 13th c. to present Horns: drinking horns, powder horns, cornucopias Horns, musical Household, Hospitality, and Cooking items Inscriptions other than manuscripts Intaglios: 6th c. BCE through undated Roman, 1st/6th c., 2nd to 3rd c., c.300 to 5th/7th c., 6th to 7th c., 8th to 11th c., 12th c. to present Knives Lamps, lamp-stands Lecterns Linen press Locks Loom weights Manuscripts Masks Medals, Medallions to 814, 814-840, 840-present Mills, millstones Mirrors Misericords Mortar Musical Instruments to 1200, 1200-present Necklaces Patens Pendants through 5th c. and undated Anglo-Saxon, Merovingian; 6th-13th c.; 14th c.-present; unposted Merov/A-S Perfume containers aquamanile in the form of a gryphon, copper alloy, Nürnberg c.1400, Louvre Phalerae, parade medallions Pilgrminage signs, badges and plaques Pulpits Purses Pyxides Reading desks Reliquaries not including crosses, through 12th c., 13th-14th c., 15th c. to present Rings Salt cellar Sarcophagi through mid 4th c. CE, late 4th c. to present Scissors Seal imprints through Carloman of Bavaria 878, Louis III the Younger 881 to present Seal matrices and coin dies Shields, through 5th c., 6th c.-c.1250 and general 13th c. Ships Shoes Situlae Skulls Sledges Spear fittings Spindle whorls and rods Spinning wheel Stools Strap ends Sword Tabernacle Tanks Temple rings Thrones, to c.1130, c.1130-c.1270, c.1270-present Urns (burial), ossuaries through mid 4th c. CE, late 4th c. to present Vessels: in the see Medium index, see ceramics, gemstones, glass, and metals Vise Watches Water strainers Weather vanes Weights Wells Windows Writing tablets