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Historical Archive: Game boards, game pieces, and other game equipment Representations follow surviving examples. For dice and knucklebones see Dice. A list of undigitized Roman and Merovingian game pieces appears after the thumbnails below. If you need an image not yet digitized, feel free to contact me and I will prioritize the requested object. game board, shell, limestone, lapis; Ur c.2550-2450 BCE, Penn B16742. For detail see Penn. faience game pieces from Tell Guirgor (Iraq), 14th-12th c. BCE, Louvre N 3413 or N III 313 faience game pieces from Tell Guirgor (Iraq), 14th-12th c. BCE, Louvre N 3413 or N III 313 limestone game board with bulls from Balawat (Imgur Enlil; Iraq), early 1st millennium BCE, Louvre AO 14049 bis Roman ivory disk game piece with sea beasts, reverse numbered XV and Iε, CdM Froehner 238 Roman rabbit or hare crouching facing R, numbered I, ivory or bone game piece, CdM Froehner 97 plano-convex game piece, glass, Roman period (formerly in Merovingian setting), Chelles plano-convex game piece, glass, Roman period (formerly in Merovingian setting), Chelles plano-convex game piece, glass, Roman period (formerly in Merovingian setting), Chelles tessera/game piece, prob. Roman ivory, Vat game pieces from Taplow, bone and copper alloy, 6th-7th c. Anglo-Saxon, BM 1883,1214.7 game piece from Taplow, bone and copper alloy, 6th-7th c. Anglo-Saxon, BM 1883,1214.7 amber game piece fr. Østby, Vestfold, 9th-11th c., OHM C11772 Viking game materials, left: glass pieces and bone dice fr. Nes, Hamarøy, Nordland; right: amber pieces fr. Gunnarshaug, Karmøy, Rogaland; Bergen. Not available in high resolution. agate/chalcedony chess pieces, undated Byzantine or Islamic: Ambo of Henry II, Aachen cathedral. The ambo and cathedral have their own pages with more undated chess pieces. rock crystal chess knight, Abbasid or poss. Spanish, 10th-11th c., Schn F52 game pieces fr. Gjermundbu Farm, bone? c.950-1000, OHM. For helmet from same grave see OHM. bone game piece with wading bird, western Europe 11th c., Hermitage ivory chess bishop in the form of elephant and rider, Afrasiab Uzbekistan, 11th-12th c., BM 1980,0730.1. For additional views see BM. ivory chess bishop in the form of elephant and rider, Afrasiab Uzbekistan, 11th-12th c., BM 1980,0730.1 ivory chess bishop in the form of elephant and rider, Afrasiab Uzbekistan, 11th-12th c., BM 1980,0730.1 game piece with sphinx, western Europe 12th c., Hermitage ivory game piece, Hercules and the Erymanthian boar?, Cologne c.1150, UMMA 1987/1.262 ivory game piece, Hercules and the Erymanthian boar?, angled view of obverse, Cologne c.1150, UMMA 1987/1.262 ivory game piece, Hercules and the Erymanthian boar?, view from left, Cologne c.1150, UMMA 1987/1.262 chessboard 1300-30, reused in plenary of Otto the Mild, KGM W 32, which has its own page ivory chess piece, soldiers with spears (king on reverse), Spain or France 15th c. BM 1881,1114.1 ivory chess piece, soldiers with spears (king on reverse), Spain or France 15th c. BM 1881,1114.1 backgammon game: Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahid and Hajib Mas'ud ibn Ahmad: Bobrinsky bucket, bronze with silver and copper, Afghanistan, 1163, Hermitage IR-2268. This work has its own page. stick players (fighters): Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahid and Hajib Mas'ud ibn Ahmad: Bobrinsky bucket, bronze with silver and copper, Afghanistan, 1163, Hermitage IR-2268. This work has its own page. beaker with polo players, enamelled and gilded blown glass, Syria, mid 13th c., Louvre OA 6131. This work has its own page. ivory mirror case with chess game, Paris c.1300, V&A 803-1891. This work has its own page. chess game, ivory mirror case, Paris c.1300, V&A 803-1891. This work has its own page. polo player with stick: Muhammad ibn al-Zayn, Baptistère de Saint Louis, Egypt or Syria c.1330-40, Louvre LP16. This work has its own page. youth with polo stick: Muhammad ibn al-Zayn, Baptistère de Saint Louis, Egypt or Syria c.1330-40, Louvre LP16. This work has its own page. chess game: plenary of Otto the Mild, 1339 reusing chessboard 1300-30, KGM W 32, which has its own page American football: Conrad Atkinson, NEAnderthal, mixed media 1989, UMMA 2004/2.106. Art object copyright: artist/heirs. Game pieces: disks, plaques, and chess pieces crystal disk with XV and Iε, crystal, BM 1923/4-1/47 crystal disk with XI, crystal, BM 1923/4-1/157 crystal chess piece, Fatimid, Halberstadt Cathedral treasury ivory disk w hand number, reverse numbered VII, CdM Froehner 318 rectangular gold and garnet plaques, game pieces? RGM D331h unmarked plano-convex playing piece, dark green glass bound in Merovingian copper alloy mount, from Mülhofen “Auf’m Rötchen”, RLM 38,357 unmarked plano-convex playing piece, yellowish quartz, Kestner 1683 unmarked high tafl piece, ivory (Merovingian), bound in copper alloy, from Xanten St. Viktor grave 89, RLM Fundnr. X744-X1482 Game pieces with representational forms almond, numbered XII, ivory or bone, Kestner 1616 almond, numbered XI or IX, ivory, Kestner 1617 boar running L, numbered X, ivory or bone, CdM Froehner 99 boar's head facing L, numbered XIIII, ivory or bone, CdM Froehner 116 chestnut, numbered IIII, ivory, Kestner 1614 chestnut, numbered VIIII, ivory or bone, Kestner 1615 cicada, numbered XII, ivory or bone, CdM Froehner 102 cicada, numbered VIIII, ivory or bone, Kestner 1604 cicada, numbered II, ivory, Kestner 1603 dog crouching facing L, numbered VII, ivory or bone, CdM Froehner 100 duck facing R, numbered I, ivory or bone, CdM Froehner 113 duck facing R, numbered XI, ivory, Kestner 1611 fish, numbered XII, ivory, Kestner 1600 fish, numbered II, ivory or bone, modern? Kestner 1601 hamster facing L, numbered VIIII, ivory, Kestner 1609 hare crouching facing L, numbered VIIII or XIIII, ivory, Kestner 1608 rabbit crouching facing R, numbered XIIII, ivory or bone, CdM Froehner 95 ram's head to L, numbered XI, ivory Kestner 1610 roast fowl, numbered XV, ivory or bone, CdM Froehner 104 scallop shell, numbered XIV, ivory, Kestner 1613 shell, numbered IX or XI, ivory or bone, CdM Froehner 131 snake and dolphin inscribed GALENO/DLXII, green stone, modern? Kestner 1677 sow facing L, numbered X, ivory, Kestner 1605