Costume details and decorations

Name of the exhibit

Cross-shaped overlay for the bag

Brief description

Cross-shaped, with three rivets on the back and a vertical loop.
The item was used as a decor element, being attached to a leather bag or purse worn on the belt. It was widespread in the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Period/date

14th–15th centuries

Manufacturing material

Iron

Dimensions

4,1 × 2,5 cm, thickness 0,2 cm, loop diameter 0,8 cm, rivet height 0,6 cm, rivet diameter 0,8 cm.

Place of storage, inventory number

Kherson Regional Museum of Local Lore. Inv. No. BX-1362

First publication

«Na rozi dvokh svitiv. Istorychna spadshchyna Ukrainy ta Lytvy na terytorii Khersonskoi oblasti». Authors: S.O.Biliaieva, K.S.Hulenko, O.Ye.Fialko, M.M.Iievlev, O.V.Hrabovska, O.V.Manihda, O.V.Chubenko. O.V.Symonenko, O.V.Dzneladze, D.M.Sikoza. Kyiv-Kherson, Hileia, 2018, p. 20, ill. 11, 1.