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Historical Archive: People other than rulers, ecclesiastics/monastics, saints, and personifications 8th through undifferentiated 12th centuries, and early to mid-12th century glass cameo from Whitby monastery, late 7th-9th c. (Insular or Continental), on loan to BM from Strickland collection tunic with fishers on insets, linen and wool, 8th c., Pushkin. For full object see Pushkin ordinary person? Oseberg "Buddha Bucket", wood, bronze, and enamel, prob. Irish, 8th c.? C55000 156, OsloVSM, which has its own pages Khazar belt mount, silver/gilt, 8th-9th c., Morgan 2012.2:89 Oseberg cart, 8th-early 9th c., OsloVSM, which has its own pages captive: Nagyszentmiklós treasure, gold, 700-750?, KHM VIIb. For more views and companion works see Nagyszentmiklós. St Mary Bishophill Jr, York, cross fragment with secular figures, millstone grit (sandstone), late 8th-9th c., Yorkshire Museum 1979.53. For another view see York. servants/observers: Genoels-Elderen ivories, late 8th/early 9th c., MRAH 1474. This work has its own page. guards: Harrach diptych, ivory with glass c.800, Schn 1012, which has its own page bust from San Salvatore crypt, early 9th c., stucco, Brescia Museum of Santa Giulia. For oblique view see Brescia. blind, servant, paralytic, leper: Andrews diptych, ivory, early 9th c. or poss 5th c., V&A A.47&A-1926. For oblique view see V&A. women: Oseberg tapestry, c.834, OsloVSM, which has its own pages mourner: Lindau Gospels upper cover, gold/gems, c.870-80, Morgan MS M. 1, which has its own page with another mourner soldiers: Meeting Abner and Joab at Lake Gabaon, ivory c.870, Louvre MR 374 Jewish elders: life of Christ ivory, c.870, SMBByz 598. For full work and details see Berlin with more ordinary people. secular figures (bottom): liturgical scenes, ivory, c.870-75? Louvre MR 368, MR 369. This work has its own page. shepherds: Resurrection/Nativity, ivory late 9th-early 10th c., Vat 64477 Martha, mother of Simeon: lead token of St. Symeon Stylites the Younger, 10th-11th c. Syria, SMBByz 32/73, which has its own page vintner: labor of September, ivory, 10th-11th c. Byzantine, SMBByz 573 soldier, Byzantine ivory 10th-11th c., Schn B6 sorceress? or Odin or Freya, silver c.900, Lejre young people: Veroli Casket, ivory and bone, mid to late 10th c., V&A 216-1865. This work has its own page with more ordinary people. child: Christ pointing to child, ivory fr Magdeburg Antependium, Milan c.968, Louvre OA 11372 multiplication loaves/fishes, ivory fr Magdeburg Antependium, Milan c.968, Louvre OA 6301 guards, servants: scourging, Pontius Pilate, ivory fr Magdeburg Antependium, Milan c.970, BNM 17/420. For scale see BNM. soldiers: Basilewsky Situla, ivory, 980-81, V&A A.18-1933. This work has its own page with watchmen. Viking figure on recut cross fragment from Weston church, side 2, Yorkshire Museum. For another view see York. Dietrich grave stone with Old High German inscription, c.1000, Bingen, LMM S3089. This work has its own page. Byzantine Last Judgment ivory, 11th c., V&A A.24-1926. This work has its own page. Rosette Casket, wood/ivory/bone, Italo-Byzantine, 11th-12th c., Arezzo MS, which has its own page Cuman figures, sandstone, 11th-13th c., SMB MVFg IIId 9031/1-4, which have their own page seal matrix of Godwin (reverse of Godgytha), walrus ivory, early 11th c., BM 1881,0404.1. For detail of handle see BM. seal matrix of Godgytha (reverse of Godwin), walrus ivory, early 11th c., BM 1881,0404.1 armed crowd: gold altar frontal, early 11th c., Aachen cathedral. The altar and cathedral have their own pages with soldiers on altar. shepherd? left: reliquary, sides bone, top ivory, c.1000-1050, Schn B159. For other views see Schn. guards: Christ before Pilate, Bernward Doors, bronze, Hildesheim 1007-15. This work has its own page with details. servitor, Wedding at Cana: Bernward Column, Hildesheim, c. 1020, bronze, which has its own page with more ordinary people companion (left) to King Ramiro of Aragon, Spain 1060-80, ivory with glass from St. Aemilian reliquary, Hermitage Ф-2908. For another angle and detail see Hermitage. woman who speaks in church: Last Judgment, tempera, Nicholas and Johannes 1061-71, Vat 40526, which has its own page with more ordinary people people building or riding in ark: ivory with Genesis scenes, Spain, late 11th or 9th/early 10th c., Hermitage Ф-2, which has its own page executioners: Reliquary of SS. Adrian and Natalia, León 12th c., silver on oak, AIC 1943.65. This work has its own page. Ishmaelite (on camel): Sainte Chasse, 12th c. Byzantine ivory, Sens CT 143, which has its own page with more ordinary people guard: judicial scene, St. Stephen: copper, 12th c.? Vat 61919 servants: Alexander casket, Byzantine ivory, prob. 12th c., poss. 6th or 9th c., Darmstadt Kg 54:215a-d, which has its own page with assassins shepherds, midwife: Nativity ivory, Venice?, 12th/13th c.; on reliquary icon with its own page. disk with falconer, silver/gilt, 12th-13th c. Volga Bulgar, Morgan 2012.2:92 idolater: Abdinghof portable altar, 1115-30, DMP PR50, which has its own page with many ordinary people rich people: capital with Lazarus and Dives: feast of Dives, limestone, c.1125, MAHSD. For contiguous faces see the Saint-Denis museum page. soldiers: engaged capital with arrest of St. Denis, limestone, c.1125, MAHSD. For contiguous face see the Saint-Denis museum page. souls praising God: Lisbjerg Altar frontal/retable/arch c.1135-50, gilded copper, NMD D287. This work has its own page with woman and child. Seal of William, count of Nevers (modern cast), 1140. AN D859 left top: man untying sheaves, Chartres west façade center 1140s-c.1150. For more workers on same portal, people on West windows 1145-55, and more views, see Chartres. Seal of Raoul, count of Vermandois (modern cast), c. 1146. AN D1010