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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

Click to enlarge.
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