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Mycenaean amphora with stirrup handle
Bronze mirror with Lasa
Cup of Thymiaterion
Figurine of warrior on horseback
Syringe player figurine
Cup with double handle signed "Clemens"
Veiled female head
Veiled male head
Head of a child
Jasper engraved with a scene of sacrifice
Agate engraved with kneeling warrior with armor and shield
Black jasper engraved with victorious horse with palm branch
Sardonic cameo with Bacchant's head
Carnelian engraved with a dog chasing a deer
Double register pseudo-aedicule stele
Stele di Tattia Procula e di Publius Valerius Servolus
Clay oil lamp with ogival beak with volutes
Stone Pluteus with interwoven and phytomorphic ribbon decoration
Cubic capital in decorated stone
Stone capital with eight-petaled flower and other phytomorphic motifs
Arched tile with central shaft
Altarpiece Virgin enthroned
Angel head
High relief Santa Fosca
High relief representing the Lamentation over the dead Christ
Adoration of the Magi
Sculpture representing the praying Madonna
Well with griffins reworked on a Roman base
Holy water stoup
Pastoral hedgehog
Formella with hare and leaf
Seal of Anastasio Patrizio
Transit of the Virgin
Bronze fibula
Fragment of dish

Pastoral hedgehog

Anonymous

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Torcello Museum

Torcello Museum

Piazza Torcello, Venice

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The elegant ivory artefact of Sicilian-Arab production crowned the pastoral staff of the bishop of Torcello Bono Balbi. The hedgehog consists of a single piece with no applications that ends with a snake head from whose gaping jaws a cross rises. The stem that determines the volute of the hedgehog is faceted and along it residual decorations are arranged in the form of small floral elements and dotted bands.

The object, found in 1893 in the burial of bishop Bono in the Basilica of Torcello, dates back to between 1181 and 1215, the year in which the prelate was deposed.
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Title: Pastoral hedgehog

Author: Anonymous

Date: 1181 - 1215

Technique: Carved and painted ivory

Displayed in: Torcello Museum

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