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Historical Archive: Unidentifiable Quadrupeds See also Animal Interlace. fantastic animal, Okunev culture, 1st half of 2nd millennium BCE, Khakassia, Russia, Hermitage back of animal: cylinder seal, ANE 1500-1300 BCE in 1970s mount, p.c., which has its own page front of animal: cylinder seal, ANE 1500-1300 BCE in 1970s mount, p.c., which has its own page buckle, Koban, c.1000-500 BCE, MSHM textile, Pre-Columbian Paracas culture 7th-3rd c. BCE, Imola predator, 6th-5th c. BCE, Kazbeksky hoard, MSHM predator with chain, 6th-5th c. BCE, Kazbeksky hoard, MSHM disk, poss. 6th-5th c. BCE, Kazbeksky hoard, MSHM bone spoon with predator head and quadruped on bowl, 6th-5th c. BCE South Urals nomads, MSHM altar from Semirechye (Zhetysu), Kazakhstan, cast bronze 125 cm wide, Sakae culture 5th-3rd c. BCE, Hermitage СА-13760. For full work and detail see Hermitage. mythological phalera with Athena, c.200-100 BCE, Severskaya, Kuban region, MSHM Parthian ivory rhyton, 2nd-1st c. BCE, Hermitage CA-1504, which has its own page animal plaque, 4th-8th c., north Urals/Kama region, MSHM gold bracteate, 5th c. Denmark, prob. Tyr overcoming Fenris, Hermitage OH-З-Aз-5837 buckle with quadruped, bronze, 6th c., MAHSD gold bracteate, Denmark c.500, Hermitage OH-З-Aз-5838 Sutton Hoo purse lid, gold/garnet/glass, Insular early 7th c., BM 1939,1010.2.a-l, which has its own page animal at end: Sutton Hoo Great Gold Buckle, Insular early 7th c., BM 1939,1010.1, which has its own page tablet-woven band with birds and quadrupeds, found in the reliquary of Balthild (d. c.680), Chelles. For more of the band see Chelles. Hunterston Brooch, gold/silver/amber c.700, NMS X.FC 8, which has its own page with many quadrupeds animal pendant, dogs?, gold, Coclé 700-1000 CE, DO PC.B.373, which has its own page Oseberg cart, 8th-early 9th c., OsloVSM, which has its own pages silver ring, England c.775-850, V&A 628-1871. For profile see V&A amber quadruped with hind feet gripping neck fr. Haugsten, Østfold, 9th-11th c., OHM C4033. For another view see OHM. Oseberg ship, oak with iron, c.820, OsloVSM, which has its own pages ainmal interlace mount, gilt copper alloy, Insular 10th-11th c., MoL A10394 drinking horn silver fittings, c.950-1000, Black Grave burial mound in Chernihiv, MSHM, which have their own page gravestone fr. St Paul's, limestone, Insular early 11th c., MoL 4075, which has its own page bird of prey hunting hooved animal, marble, poss. chancel screen, Constantinople 12th c., SMBByz 3250. For reverse see Berlin. Novgorod cathedral doors, bronze, prob. 1152-54. The doors have their own page. Pisa baptistery lower level 1152-70, at Pisa cathedral, which has its own page, in cathedral complex limestone baptismal font, Mosan c.1200, Schn K112, which has its own page ceremonial axe with elk(?) fr. Olen'-Kolodez' mound 7, iron/silver, ulus of Jochi or Golden Horde c.1300, Hermitage GIVO-4/1996. For oblique view see Hermitage. Naumburg cathedral gargoyles, c.1330, which have their own page