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Chess piece
3D model of a chess piece. The original, made of bone, was found in the rubbish dump by the entrance to the monastery kitchen. While the oldest known references to chess are from the 6th century CE (AD), clergymen are thought to have brought the game to Iceland shortly after Christianity was adopted around the year 1000. Gaming objects such as these are frequently found in archaeological excavatio…
Creator
- 3D digitisation was done by Catherine Cassidy and Iain Oliver with archaeological assistance provided by Skúli Gunnarsson.
Subject
- Cultural Heritage & History
- chess piece
- archaeological objects
- game equipment
- Spielstein
- Archaeological artifact
Type of item
- 3D
Creator
- 3D digitisation was done by Catherine Cassidy and Iain Oliver with archaeological assistance provided by Skúli Gunnarsson.
Subject
- Cultural Heritage & History
- chess piece
- archaeological objects
- game equipment
- Spielstein
- Archaeological artifact
Type of item
- 3D
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 2020
- 2020
Temporal
- Medieval
Places
- Skriðuklaustur Monastery, Iceland
Provenance
- Photogrammetr
Identifier
- share3d:983
- share3d:983
Format
- glTF
Language
- English
- eng
Is part of
- Share3D
- United Kingdom
Relations
- https://sarpur.is/Adfang.aspx?AdfangID=1436488
- https://zenodo.org/record/4560032
Year
- 2020
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2023-02-06T15:05:59.551Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2024-09-11T14:48:51.577Z