Les peignes de la nécropole mérovingienne de Torgny : documentation et analyses en vue d'une proposition de typologie

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Supervisors

Verslype, Laurent

Faculty

Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres

Degree label

Master [120] en histoire de l'art et archéologie, orientation générale, à finalité spécialisée: théories, gestion et sciences de l'archéologie

Abstract

enBone and animal wood combs are quite frequently found in burial contexts of the Merovingian period in northwestern Europe. Unfortunately, their material constitution means that they are generally not sufficiently well preserved to be exhaustively documented. The Merovingian necropolis of Torgny has yielded a sufficiently large number of whole and fragmented combs to remedy these shortcomings. This cemetery had been the subject of several excavation campaigns under the direction of Mr Gérard Lambert, whose excavation documents were recovered by the Service Public de Wallonie a few years ago. It is these first-hand sources, combined with a detailed study of the combs preserved in the Musée gaumais, which form the basis of this research. The objective of this work is to propose a recontextualisation of the comb tombs within the necropolis, while constituting a database of the combs, based on systematic descriptions of the furniture, with observation of the decorations, on the taking of dimensions of the whole objects and fragments, and on a photographic documentation of each element. This dissertation is presented as a first step towards an in-depth study aimed at producing a typology for the combs of the necropolis.