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Historical Archive: Drinking Horns, Powder Horns, and Cornucopias Representations follow surviving objects. drinking horn from Rommersheim grave 6, glass, 2nd half of 6th c., LMM N4871-4881 drinking horn from Rommersheim grave 6, glass, 2nd half of 6th c., LMM N4871-4881 drinking horn mounts from Little Wilbraham, Anglo-Saxon, bronze, CMAA 1948.1379 glass drinking horn poss. fr. Sutri, late 6th c., BM 1887,0108.2, which has its own page drinking horns with silver fittings, c.950-1000, Black Grave burial mound in Chernihiv, MSHM, which have their own page Aurochs or buffalo horn reliquary, early 12th-c. Insular; copper alloy at tip 13th c. (?), MRAH 2958 Aurochs or buffalo horn reliquary, early 12th-c. Insular, MRAH 2958 Jonah and the whale drinking horn, buffalo horn and silver, Germany 15th c., KGM K3886, which has its own page drinking horn with eagle feet: horn, copper, copper gilt; Germany c.1500, Cluny Cl.2324 drinking horn with eagle feet: horn, copper, copper gilt; Germany c.1500, Cluny Cl.2324 drinking horn with eagle feet: horn, copper, copper gilt; Germany c.1500, Cluny Cl.2324 powder horn of Henry IV of France, antler and iron, early 17th c. France, Louvre inv. P480 503 B powder horn of Henry IV of France, antler and iron, early 17th c. France, Louvre inv. P480 503 B Engraved musket powder horn, cow, ox, or buffalo horn, 18th c. US, UMMA 2007/1.101. This work has its own page. cornucopia (right): Gemma Augustea, banded agate cameo, 9/10-12 CE, KHM ANSA IXa 79. This work has its own page. cornucopia: River Nile, marble, late 1st-2nd c., Rome? Vat 22832. This work has its own page. cornucopia: Iulia Domna, gilded silver, Rome 205-11, SMBMünz 8200788 cornucopia: Valentinian I, gold 2 solidi, Trier 367-75, reverse: Rome and Constantinople, SMBMünz 18200865 cornucopia: Constantinople, ivory, 5th-6th c., KHM X 38, which has its own page with companion panel cornucopia, left: Giovanni Pisano pulpit 1302-10, which has its own page, in Pisa cathedral cornucopias: plaque with hair of Napoleon, silver/gilt/bronze, France 1840s, Hermitage UM-30876. For details see Hermitage. related: Parthian ivory rhyton, 2nd-1st c. BCE, Hermitage CA-1504, which has its own page related, horn of unction: Sainte Chasse, 12th c. Byzantine ivory, Sens CT 143, which has its own page