<div><a href="http://blog.amsterdammuseum.nl/?p=5854">http://blog.amsterdammuseum.nl/?p=5854</a>
</div><div><br></div>This is a chess piece found in Amsterdam near the former city gate Olofspoort in a moat from the period between 1375 and 1425. It's made of bone and represents the knight.<br><div><br></div><div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/6/7 <a href="mailto:trzaska@lineone.net">trzaska@lineone.net</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trzaska@lineone.net" target="_blank">trzaska@lineone.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Dear Gunther,<br>
<br>
It might be a chess piece, although the decoration would be very unusual for that purpose (if not<br>
unique). It could also be a playing piece for a different game. Here is a pdf of a 1995 text that I<br>
wrote about the English series of chess pieces, for anybody who is vaguely interested in this sort<br>
of thing,<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
All best wishes,<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Ian Riddler<br>
<br>
<br>
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>----Original Message----<br>
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>From: <a href="mailto:guenther.karl.kunst@univie.ac.at">guenther.karl.kunst@univie.ac.at</a><br>
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>Date: 06/06/2012 15:32<br>
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>To: "Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the study of<br>
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> object and waste of bone,<br>
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</div>> antler. ivory and horn."<<a href="mailto:bonetools@listserv.niif.hu">bonetools@listserv.niif.hu</a>><br>
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>Subj: Re: [Bonetools] cross_bone_?<br>
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>Dear Sonia, Alice and Salima,<br>
<br>
>thank you so much for suggestions and observations. Walrus would be an<br>
<br>
>option, it is the far north of Austria (bordering to the "Czech<br>
<br>
>Canada"). Better images are being made, I will communicate your ideas to<br>
<br>
>the excavator.<br>
<br>
>all the best<br>
<br>
>Karl<br>
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><br>
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>S O'Connor schrieb:<br>
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>> Dear Karl,<br>
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>><br>
<br>
>> It is difficult to see enough detail from these images but there is a<br>
<br>
>> possibility they this is walrus ivory - there seems to be a distinction<br>
<br>
>> between featureless material and an area with a whorled structure. Antler<br>
<br>
>> pedicle can also show a similar combination of features but to carry this<br>
<br>
>> forward I would need to see better images of these different areas and the<br>
<br>
>> junction between them at higher magnification (with a scale if you can).<br>
<br>
>> The colour could be deliberate staining or due to the burial environment. I<br>
<br>
>> have had some walrus ivory playing pieces that look like dark amber.<br>
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>><br>
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>> Thanks,<br>
<br>
>><br>
<br>
>> Sonia<br>
<br>
>><br>
<br>
>> Dr Sonia O'Connor PhD FSA FIIC ACR Honorary Visiting Fellow, University of<br>
<br>
>> York<br>
<br>
>> Post-doctoral Research Fellow<br>
<br>
>> Archaeological Sciences<br>
<br>
>> Division of AGES,<br>
<br>
>> University of Bradford<br>
<br>
>> Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK<br>
<br>
>><br>
<br>
>> tel 01274 23 6498 (office) 5210 (lab)<br>
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>> fax 01274 23 5210<br>
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>><br>
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>><br>
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>> -----Original Message-----<br>
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>> From: <a href="mailto:bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu">bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu</a><br>
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>> [mailto:<a href="mailto:bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu">bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu</a>] On Behalf Of Günther Karl Kunst<br>
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>> Sent: 04 June 2012 11:32<br>
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>> To: Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the study of<br>
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>> object and waste of bone, antler. ivory and horn.<br>
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>> Subject: [Bonetools] cross_bone_?<br>
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>><br>
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>> Der Alice and all!<br>
<br>
>> Unfortunately, this is not meant as an immediate reponse concerning a<br>
<br>
>> bonetool of the month, because the circumstances (stray find), property<br>
<br>
>> issues and identity (material) are still too vague. It was found by a local<br>
<br>
>> collector in the vicinity of a former castle in a (nowadays) remote area of<br>
<br>
>> northern Lower Austria. It was shown to me by Sabine Felgenhauer from the<br>
<br>
>> prehistoric department who carries out excavations in the castle area<br>
<br>
>> (pottery of High Medieval - 11th-13th c). The oblong object, with a<br>
<br>
>> cross-engraving on both sides, feels "warm" haptically and has been worked<br>
<br>
>> (file, saw, ...) all over its surface, and I think/hope it is an animal<br>
<br>
>> tissue, but not quite sure about that. No original surface left, and what is<br>
<br>
>> the meaning of the "structural lines"<br>
<br>
>> (dentine-ivory, antler?)? Excavator put forward ideas about a gaming<br>
<br>
>> piece/chessman. I attach several pictures I took under not quite ideal<br>
<br>
>> cicrumstances.<br>
<br>
>> Any suggestions welcome!<br>
<br>
>> all the best<br>
<br>
>> Karl<br>
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>><br>
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>><br>
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>><br>
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