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Historical Archive: Weapons: Spears, Lances, and Miscellany For breaking wheel see Catherine of Alexandria. Unless they show distinctive features, spear and lance images will not be added to this page after January 2023. head of figure holding spears from Chernovaya Burial Mound VIII, Okunev Culture, 1st half of 2nd millennium BCE, Hermitage Exekias, black-figure amphora from Vulci with Ajax and Achilles playing dice, c.540-30 BCE, Vat 16757. This work has its own page. birth of Athena, Etrusco-Italic bronze mirror back fr. Arezzo, 330-310 BCE, Bologna IT 1073. For full work see Bologna. miniature tools or weapons, bronze, 1st to 3rd c., BM, 2975+ Gemma Augustea, banded agate cameo, 9/10-12 CE, KHM ANSA IXa 79. This work has its own page. 4th c. gold-glass, KHM XIa 80 Crispus, silver 2 siliquae of Constantinus I, Cologne 319, SMBMünz 18200817 Porphyry sarcophagus of Helena (d. c.330), 1st third of 4th c., Vat 238. This work has its own page. Roma seated with Victory, Roman niccolo agate intaglio c.330 CE, CdM Chab. 2071 Passion sarcophagus, marble, c.350 CE, Vat 31525. This work has its own page. Passion/tree sarcophagus, marble, Rome c.360, Vat 28591. For other views see Vatican Museums. Resurrection/Ascension, ivory, c.400, BNM MA 157, which has its own page. trident: Szilágy Somlyó amulet chain, gold/rock crystal, prob. c.400-50, poss. late 4th c., KHM VIIb 1. The Szilágy Somlyó treasure has its own page with spear points. spear head: Meleager, Byz silver 6th-7th c., BNM L.56/113, which has its own page retinue of Justinian, apse wall mosaic, Ravenna, Church of San Vitale, 527-48. This work has its own interior and exterior pages. Barberini Diptych, ivory 527-65, Louvre OA 9063. This work has its own page. Cathedra of Maximian, ivory, 546-56, RavArchMus, which has its own page with more weapons sling: David and Goliath, Constantinople 629–30, Met 17.190.396, which has its own page flask, Nagyszentmiklós treasure, gold, 700-750?, KHM VIIb. For more views and companion works see Nagyszentmiklós. inverted spear: Oseberg tapestry, c.834, OsloVSM, which has its own pages Charles the Bald prayer book cover ivories: psalms 26 and 24, c.860, Zurich Schweizerisches Landesmuseum AG-1311, DIG-3437 Arnulf (reg. 887-99) seal: 896 Aug. 2, BHA KS81 Louis the Child (reg. 899-911) seal: 905 Feb. 14, BHA KS97 Louis the Child (reg. 899-911) seal: 911 June 16, BHA KS101 spears: Basilewsky Situla, ivory, 980-81, V&A A.18-1933. This work has its own page. Military saints with spears and shields, Byzantine schist icon, 11th-13th c., Cluny Cl.21602 Crucifixion, gold altar frontal, early 11th c., Aachen cathedral. The altar and cathedral have their own pages with whips, spears, sword. Crucifixion, Bernward Doors, bronze, Hildesheim 1007-15. This work has its own page with other views. Crucifixion, Book cover, gold/ivory/gems/enamel, metalwork c.1020, AachenCT. The cover has its own page. Crucifixion/Genesis ivory, c.1050-75, SMBByz 589, which has its own page with reverse Crucifixion capital, sandstone, 12th-c. Spain, MNW Śr. 379. For another view see MNW. Christ crowning SS. George and (?)Theodore Stratelates, steatite, 12th c., MSHM GIM 77091, OK 13176 (270), MSHM iron combs: Abdinghof portable altar, 1115-30, DMP PR50, which has its own page with marked and bound swords, clubs, spears spear with banner: Seal of William, count of Nevers (modern cast), 1140. AN D859 spear with banner: Seal of Raoul, count of Vermandois (modern cast), c. 1146. AN D1010 Stavelot altar, gilt bronze with enamel and rock crystal, c.1150-60, MRAH 1590. This work has its own page with more spears. ivory cross, c.1150-60, Cloisters 63.12, which has its own page. Novgorod cathedral doors, bronze, prob. 1152-54. The doors have their own page with more swords and prob. later quiver. battle of the Milvian Bridge: Stavelot Triptych, Mosan, c.1156-58, Morgan AZ001, which has its own page. Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahid and Hajib Mas'ud ibn Ahmad: Bobrinsky bucket, bronze with silver and copper, Afghanistan, 1163, Hermitage IR-2268. This work has its own page. spear with banner: cross from Scheldewindeke, rock crystal and enamel, Mosan c.1170-1200, MRAH 3669. This work has its own page. Betrayal, Pisa Cathedral doors, bronze, Bonannus of Pisa c.1180. This work has its own page with swords. St. Demetrios, stone (shale/schist?), late 12th-early 13th c., Byzantine? Novgorod AM glass water bottle in the shape of pilgrim's flask, Syria c.1250-60, BM 1869,0120.3. This work has its own page. Passion of Christ, ivory, Paris, 1st half of 14th c., MAAB. This object has its own page. Kloster Wienhausen nuns' choir, painted c.1335, which has its own page with many weapons knife: ciborium monstrance, silver gilt/rock crystal/enamel, c.1350-75, DMP PR109, which has its own page with sword Yakov Fedosov 1359, Lyudogoshch cross, wood, which has its own page with swords, Novgorod AM Arezzo, San Francesco: St. Michael and the Rebel Angels fresco, Spinello Aretino (1350-1410) Cappella Strozzi di Mantova, Florence, Nardo di Cione 1354-57, which has its own page with spears Apocalypse cycle c.1363/65: Karlstejn Castle, Chapel of the Virgin Mary, which has its own own page. Wood chest with tournament, 15th-c. France, Cluny Cl.8919. For another view see Cluny. ivory chess piece, soldiers with spears (king on reverse), Spain or France 15th c. BM 1881,1114.1. For another view see BM. Man of Sorrows w. instruments Passion, Niccolo di Pietro Gerini c.1405-06, tempera/panel fr Santissima Annunziata, Florence: Arezzo MS Winterfeld Diptych: Virgin and Child, Man of Sorrows with Holy Lance and instruments of the Passion, Ecce Homo, tempera on oak, from church of Notre Dame in Gdansk, Gdansk c.1430, MNW Śr. 206 Bernat Martorell, St. George, Spain 1434-35, tempera on panel, AIC 1933.786. This work has its own page. Annunciation/mystic hunt for the unicorn, circle of Martin Schongauer 1489, Pushkin 2734 banner supports: Lady and the Unicorn, wool/silk tapestry, c.1500, Cluny. For more panels see Cluny. St. George and the dragon, marble, Michel Colombe 1509-10; frame prob. Jerome Pacherot, Jean Chersalle, Bertrand de Meynal. Louvre MR 1645. This work has its own page. lance: Maximilian I, silver 3 Guldiner, Antwerp 1517 (dated 1509), SMBMünz 18203549 spear: pectoral cross, gold/enamel, 17th c. Russia, MSHM Battle of the Milvian Bridge, Andrea Camassei (1602/49), Lateran Baptistery narthex, Rome, which has its own interior page. Ethiopian double diptych pendant, late 17th c., StLouis 12:2016, which has its own page toy or model guillotine, bone, Musée Carnavalet Paris. For details see Carnavalet. lance: Reliquary triptych, 1850-61: copper, copper gilt, enamel, gems on wood. V&A 7947-1862 miracles of St. Thomas, Samuel Caldwell Jr. 1919-49: Canterbury cathedral, which has its own glass page.