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Rennes (35) - Musée de Bretagne

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Handle of a carved penknife featuring a stylized satyr (god Pan), horned and erect. The coat, the beard and the hair are treated by incisions, deeper for the latter. The facial features, simplified, are however quite clearly marked. The lower part of the handle, the end of which is pierced with two holes for attachment, has been hollowed out to delimit the legs; this same part is cut on the back with oblique striations, two by two, separated by a hollowed line along the entire length of the back of the handle.

Where to find it

Rennes (35) - Musée de Bretagne
10 cours des Alliés

35039 Rennes

Commune of discovery

Rennes

Locality

3-5 rue de Saint-Malo

Type of intervention

Excavation

Year of excavation

1994

Inventory number

D998.0004.14

Scope

Daily life ➔ Art of the table

Materials

Organic ➔ Ivory

Chronological period

Gallo-Roman [- 50 / 476]

Dimensions

H. 2.2 cm, L. 8.6 cm, P. 1.4 cm,