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A glimpse into #childhood in Roman #Egypt - some wooden action #toys from Karanis: a toy sword, a toy hammer, and a toy weaver's comb.
Dating 1st to 4th century AD.
Photo: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
#Archaeology
Arqueologia dos jogos de tabuleiro.
Esses dias o @gus_dorea me convidou para contribuir com 2 cents na @BanklessBR
👇Este exemplar que provém de Veneza e está exposto no Museu Arqueológico da Espanha é do século XV, mas o jogo de tabuleiro, em sua origem, remonta o ano 3000 a.C
🇺🇦🕯️Yury Kovalenko, a famous historian, archaeologist and local historian from Sumy Oblast, died in Bakhmut in the battle for Donbas. RIP Hero
#UkraineWar #Ukrainian #UkrainianArmy #Ukraine️ #RussiaIsATerroristState #RussiaIsCollapsing #Russia #Russian #RussianArmy
Edward Winter's exceptional "Chess Notes" began over 40 years ago. There is now a list online of all the items, nearly 12,000 of them. bit.ly/3LxjyKA
A lovely little blue glass gaming counter found during last year's excavations...anyone up for a game of Ludus Latrunculorum? #Castleshaw #FindsFriday #Roman
Archaeologists believe this 14,000 year old disc showing a deer running when you spin it was a children's toy. Read more: bit.ly/36PkpAz
French Ivory Mirror Case with a Couple Playing Chess, c. 1325–1350.
Cleveland Art Museum.
#MedievalMonday #MedievalArt
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Die begleitende Ausstellung zu unserem DFG/AHRC geförderten Projekt zu den frühglobalen Netzwerken der Orkney- und Shetland-Inseln startet im Deutschen Schifffahrtsmuseum (DSM) in #Bremerhaven am 24. März. Herzliche Einladung! @UHIArchaeology
dsm.museum/ausstellung/au…
Chess Piece, Pawn. 12th century.
Credit line: Pfeiffer Fund, 1971
metmuseum.org/art/collection…
#museum #history #art #culture
Auf in den Kampf, auf in die neue Arbeitswoche! Die Eindrücke der Exkursion nach Mannheim mit den Freunden des #smacMuseum sind noch ganz frisch…bei den vielen Exponaten ist diese berühmte Schachfigur von der Isle of Lewis fast untergegangen. Leihgabe @NtlMuseumsScot
A #Roman bone die found at #Trimontium. The die is very similar to a modern example. The points are marked by incised circles with holes in the centres and someone last threw it sometime between AD80-100. This is part of @NtlMuseumsScot collection.
#ChessInVisualArts
A Game of Chess
Mirror case
Ivory, carved
H: 7,5 cm, W: 7,4 cm
French or possibly German (Lower Rhine, Cologne)
c. 1320-30
Victoria and Albert Museum, London #chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #sculpture #MirrorCase #MiddleAges
➡️ collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O106326/a…
"This work, which entered the museum collection in 1816 as part of the Molin bequest, was originally attributed to Caravaggio and later to Bartolomeo Manfredi." gallerieaccademia.it/en/chess-playe…
Note: The palm branch is a symbol of victory, triumph, peace, and eternal life originating in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean world.
Cf. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_bran…
3/5
#ChessInVisualArts
Lucas Kilian (1579-1637)
Titel page of #Selenus1616 (👇 ALT), Part I
Engraving
1616
#chess #LegendOfOrigin #XersesPhus #ChessmenAndChessSets #SelenusChessmen #VisualArts #engraving #LucasKilian
➡️ digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/schach1…
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#ChessmenAndChessSets
Lucas Kilian
Chessboard with two putti holding palm branches and an empty chess box; left and right: Tendrils with two sets of chess pieces
Engraving
1616
Detail from #Selenus1616 (👇 ALT)
#ChessSet #SelenusChessmen #ChessInVisualArts #LucasKilian
2/5
#ChessInVisualArts
Lucas Kilian
Xerses Philomater (aka Xerxes philosophus aka Xerses phus)
Engraving
1616
Detail from:
G. Selenus: Das Schach- oder König-Spiel, Leipzig: Groß, 1616; Titel page of Part I
#chess #LegendOfOrigin #XersesPhus #VisualArts #engraving #LucasKilian
5/5
#ChessmenAndChessSets
#ChessInVisualArts
Lucas Kilian (1579-1637)
Set of chess pieces on tendrils
Engraving
1616
Detail from: #Selenus1616 (👇 ALT)
#Chessmen #ChessPiece #SelenusChessmen #VisualArts #engraving #LucasKilian
Cf. the discussion in: twitter.com/babel56/status…
4/5
https://twitter.com/babel56/status/1586387392729997312
#ChessInVisualArts
Mathew Brady Studio (active 1844-1894)
G. W. M. Nutt and Minnie Warren
Photographic Negative
c. 1860-1870
National Portrait Gallery, Washington D. C.
#chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #photography #MathewBradyStudio
📷 & ➡️ npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG…
#PhilosophersPlayingChess
Kant (?) - Hegel - Schopenhauer (?)
#chess #ChessPlayer #philosopher #ImmanuelKant #GeorgWilhelmFriedrichHegel #ArthurSchopenhauer #LegendsPlayingChess
zeit.de/zeit-magazin/2… via @ZEITmagazin
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The first in a series on the life and career of chess legend Paul Morphy. Episode 2 in the series, Prodigy https://youtu.be/d0Je3THUxBsCORRECTIONS & NOTES-A...YouTube
#ChessHistoryEN
Howard Staunton (April 1810 – 22 June 1874)
#chesshistory #educationalchess #educhess #ECUeducational #ECUedu #ChessTeachers #ECUeducationalcommission #chess #chesskid #ChessforKids #ChessSchools #chessforkids #ChessForAll #chessforteachers #ECUchess
Hnefatafl or tafl was an ancient Viking board game that became very popular in medieval Scandinavia. The board game was played by the Vikings as early as 400 A.D. Hnefatafl was a war strategy game.
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