A medieval ambo with narrative cycles and symbolic scenes has been found in a fragmentary state on the site of the church of St Michael at Banjole in 1907. Although all its fragments have been published a long time ago, they have not been identified as such, nor did they inspire researchers to study them more closely and propose a more precise reconstruction. There is no reason to consider this ambo an invention; it is a combination of borrowed and reinterpreted elements. The carver is obviously using a source model possessed by the workshop or the commissioner, and copying everything that he had at his disposal. The author suggests the ambo was made at the beginning of the 12th century by a mediocre master carver named Silvester, and placed on the protruding base in the central nave connected with a chancel screen, reinterpreting an early Christian solea. Iconological, stylistic, and technical details of the ambo show that either the master or the commissioner were familiar with the production of Monteca...