Backgammon piece
3D model of a backgammon piece. A few gaming pieces were found at the excavation, including chess pieces, dice and this wooden backgammon piece. Gaming objects are frequently found in archaeological excavations at cloisters abroad. The finds here show that pastimes such as chess and backgammon were common both at Skriðuklaustur and on the European continent. Physical object held at the National Mu…
Creator
- cineg
Subject
- Cultural Heritage & History
- Iceland
- Religious
- Games
- Spielstein
- archaeological objects
- Archaeological artifact
Type of item
- 3D
Creator
- cineg
Subject
- Cultural Heritage & History
- Iceland
- Religious
- Games
- Spielstein
- archaeological objects
- 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
- 16th century CE
Places
- Skriðuklaustur Monastery
Provenance
- Digitisation by Open Virtual Worlds, a research team within the School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, in cooperation with the Gunnar Gunnarsson Institute at Skriðuklaustur and the National Museum of Iceland. 3D digitisation was done by Catherine Cassidy and Iain Oliver with archaeological assistance provided by Skúli Gunnarsson.; Photogrammetry
Identifier
- share3d:978
- share3d:978
Format
- glTF
Language
- English
- en
Is part of
- Share3D
- United Kingdom
Relations
- https://zenodo.org/record/4560105
- https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/backgammon-piece-e163063f3849420c8f9585b4229d4961
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
- 2024-12-09T11:24:27.667Z