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Historical Archive: Wood through about 1400 Panel paintings are indexed as painting rather than wood. Osiris as vegetable god in coffin, wood and grain, Egypt 19th-20th dynasty, 1295-1069 BCE, Florence MA. This work has its own page. oak tree trunk well head with deposits, c.1000 BCE, Berlin-Lichterfelde, SMB. For detail see Berlin. wood griffin fr. Tuekta barrow 1, Pazyryk culture 6th-5th c. BCE, Hermitage wooden comb, 2nd to 4th c. Karanis (Egypt), KM 0000.00.9976 book of wood/wax tablets w. Greek school exercises, Byzantine Egypt 4th-5th c., SMB EgMP P14000. For profile view see Berlin. lintel with hare, cross, gazelle, and blessing from 6th-7th c. Cairo, wood, KM 0000.01.0192. For another view see Kelsey. Apostles, wooden church portal beam, 6th to 7th c. lower Egypt? Pushkin. For wider view see Pushkin. cross medallion from the Monastery of Saint Catherine, Mount Sinai, wood and paint, mid 6th c., KM 1963.07.0001 Sancta Sanctorum reliquary box, Syria/Palestine, late 6th-early 7th c. This work has its own page. oak: book cover 7th-12th c., Schn B98, which has its own page Oseberg "Buddha Bucket", wood, bronze, and enamel, prob. Irish, 8th c.? C55000 156, OsloVSM, which has its own pages Oseberg cart, 8th-early 9th c., OsloVSM, which has its own pages cult figure fr. Altfriesack, Brandenburg, oak, early 8th c., SMB MVFg If 22065. For other views see Berlin. Carolingian wooden diptych from Dorestad: interior, Leiden. For additional views see Leiden. Oseberg ship, oak with iron, c.820, OsloVSM, which has its own pages Oseberg animal-head post, wood, c.834, OsloVSM, which has its own pages Oseberg sledge, wood with metal, c.834, OsloVSM, which has its own pages Oseberg bed rail, beech wood, c.834, OsloVSM, which has its own pages Oseberg ship part, c.834?, OsloVSM, which has its own pages Gokstad tent posts and shield, from burial dated 895-903, OsloVSM, which has its own pages cover and leaves: Old Church Slavonic psalter, linden wood/wax, prob. 1020s, Novgorod AM. For detail and oblique view see Novgorod. Imad Madonna, linden wood, 1051-58, DMP SK1, which has its own page painted wood: Abdinghof portable altar, 1115-30, DMP PR50, which has its own page Virgin from Urnes, c.1150-1200, willow/polychrome, Bergen MA 46, which has its own page Gol stave church, pine, 1157-1216 and later, Oslo NMCH, which has its own page portal from Hylestad stave church, late 12th-early 13th c., OHM C4321, which has its own page wooden chair from Blakar farm, Lom, Oppland, 13th c., OHM C1629. For other views see OHM. church model fr. Borgund, wood, prob. crowned tabernacle shrine, 13th c. Norway, Bergen MA 288. For oblique view see Bergen. portal jambs, door fr. Ulvik stave church, Hardanger, pine w. iron (lock plate later), c.1200, Bergen MA 38 a-c. For other views see Bergen. Head of John the Baptist c.1210-20, linden wood, NaumburgCT, which has its own page reliquary bust, wood/crystal, last third 13th c., SMBByz wooden cross from Borre, Vestfold, c.1275-1300, OHM C6130. For detail see OHM. altar baldachin fr. Årdal, painted pine 1275-1300, Bergen 131: Crucifixion w. Peter/Paul, Christ enthroned, Virgin and Child w. St. Margaret of Antioch St Albans cathedral presbytery oak vaulting c.1275-1300; St Albans has its own pages. wood tally stick fr behind Jewish houses, London, late 13th c., MoL MLK76[3061]<327> panel reliquary, oak/horn/silver gilt/polychrome, late 13th c., poss. Cologne, Schn E216. For full work see Schn. Risen Christ, oak, 1290s, WienAb. For details see Wienhausen interior chest, oak and iron, 14th c. Alsace, AIC 1984.67. For detail see AIC. 14th c. oak chests, Kloster Wienhausen, which has its own pages Golden Horde MS, Uighur script on birch bark, 14th c., Hermitage, which has its own page with 4 panels wooden rune stick fr. Nordne Felt II, Oslo Old Town, 14th c., OHM C35850 Our Lady of Aachen: oak heads and hand Mary 14th c., Aachen cathedral, which has its own pages. mandrake root with sewn on rootlets, in fir box with satin, 14th-15th c., WienMus John the Baptist trampling Synagogue, oak/polychrome c.1300, Ørslev church, NMD. For other views see Copenhagen. Mary fr. Annunciation or Visitation, willow wood c.1300, BNM 14/134. For other views see BNM. Holy Kindred, wood with polychrome, Spain c.1300-1330, MFAB 61.4. This work has its own page. Reliquary cross "of Charlemagne"; gold, niello, enamel, sapphire, ruby, pearl, wood; early 14th c., Sens CT TC.D'5 St. Thomas Aquinas, wood, Siena early 14th c., poss. from S. Domenico, SPN. For other views see Siena. riveted glasses, c.1300-50, WienMus choir stalls and original wooden floor: Kloster Wienhausen nuns' choir, 1325+, which has its own page hall under nuns' choir c.1330, Kloster Wienhausen, which has its own pages Pietà, central Germany c.1330-40, NaumburgCT Naumb I.12, which has its own page audience hall ceiling and wall paneling, Imperial Palace 1348-65, Karlstejn Castle, which has its own interior page. Crucifix from Corpus Christi church, Wrocław, painted and gilded limewood, c.1350, MNW Śr. 5. This work has its own page. Yakov Fedosov 1359, Lyudogoshch cross, wood, which has its own page, Novgorod AM Roettgen Pieta, polychromed wood, Middle-Rhineland c.1360, RLM 24189. For detail see RLM. Pietà from Leubus Abbey (Lubiąż, Silesia), painted and gilded limewood, c.1370, MNW Śr. 4. This work has its own page. Vierge Ouvrante, polychromed wood, 1375-1425, Cluny Cl. 12060, which has its own page. front of an oak chest with heraldic and fantastic beasts, Lower Saxony c.1380, KGM 1884,1688 Crucified Christ, walnut wood, Cologne, c.1380-1390, CMA 1981.52. For additional views see CMA. oak misericord: gathering grain sheaves into stooks (shocks), England late 14th c., V&A W.8:1, 2-1921 oak misericord: loading grain on cart, England late 14th c., V&A W.53-1921 oak misericord: threshing grain, England late 14th c., V&A W.7-1921 Wild Man, circle of Parler family, oak, late 14th century, Schn A47. For details see Cologne. vaults, Irish oak, 1397-1405, restored 1896: Canterbury Chapter house, which has its own page.