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Historical Archive: Boars and Pigs bone boar grip, c.1000 BCE, Dyakovskaya culture, MSHM boar, copper alloy? 6th-5th c. BCE South Urals nomads, MSHM Greek rattle: child riding pig, ceramic, 1st c. BCE, Penn L-29-130, loan from PMA 29-6-134 Greek rattle, oblique view: child riding pig, ceramic, 1st c. BCE, Penn L-29-130, loan from PMA 29-6-134 miniature bronze boar, Roman, Bologna ROM 1145 "Thracian Horseman" funerary relief, marble, 2nd-3rd c. Macedonia, MFAB 50.962 miracles of Christ: healing of the Haemorrhoissa, the Paralytic, and the Demoniac, ivory, Rome c.400, Louvre OA 7876, 7877, 7878 miracles of Christ: healing of the Haemorrhoissa, the Paralytic, and the Demoniac, ivory, Rome c.400, Louvre OA 7876, 7877, 7878 miracles of Christ: healing of the Haemorrhoissa, the Paralytic, and the Demoniac, ivory, Rome c.400, Louvre OA 7876, 7877, 7878 Scenes from the life of St. Paul, and Adam in Paradise, ivory diptych c.400, Bargello, Florence. Not available at higher resolution. boars' heads: buckle fr. Åker, c.450-600, OHM C4901, which has its own page Sutton Hoo shoulder clasps, c.560-610, BM 1939,1010.4/4a/5/5a. For oblique and scale views see BM. Caledonian boar: Meleager, Byz silver 6th-7th c., BNM L.56/113, which has its own page stylized confronted boars' heads: leggings, silk with linen feet, 7th-9th c., Met 1996.78.2a, b, prob. fr. Moshchevaya Balka, which has its own page with full work Gellone Sacramentary, c.780-800, BN Lat 12048, which has its own page Adoration of the Magi, whalebone, c.1120-50, V&A 142-1866, which has its own page right top, killing a pig (November): Chartres west façade center 1140s-c.1150. For context see Chartres. ivory game piece, Hercules and the Erymanthian boar?, Cologne c.1150, UMMA 1987/1.262 ivory game piece, Hercules and the Erymanthian boar?, angled view of obverse, Cologne c.1150, UMMA 1987/1.262 ivory game piece, Hercules and the Erymanthian boar?, view from left, Cologne c.1150, UMMA 1987/1.262 left: Adel church 1150-70, which has its own exterior and interior pages nursing pig, hunting frieze left: west façade completed by 1180, Pisa cathedral, which has its own pages boar hunt, top left: Mina'i ware beaker with Shahnama story, Iran late 12th c., Freer F1928.2. This work has its own page. door fitting fr. Flæte stave church, Arnafjord, wrought iron/copper, 13th c.?: dragon heads, unicorns, pig, lion, horses, bird; Bergen MA 281a or b butchering a pig, top: portal sculpture early 13th c., Pisa baptistery, which has its own page, in cathedral complex boar slaughter, bottom: Kloster Wienhausen nuns' choir, painted c.1335, which has its own page boar's head tureen, porcelain, Chelsea Factory c.1754, SF 1945.581a-b boar's head tureen from above boar's head tureen oblique from back