National Museums Scotland · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

Lewis chessmen

carved chess pieces discovered on the Isle of Lewis

Details

Instance of: sculpture series, archaeological find
Inception: 12th century
Location: National Museum of Scotland, British Museum, Isle of Lewis
Country: United Kingdom
Owned by: British Museum
Depicts: chess piece
Material: ivory
collection: National Museum of Scotland, British Museum
described by source: Catalogue of the ivory carvings of the Christian era with examples of Mohammedan art and carvings in bone in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum
has part(s) of the class: king, queen, bishop, knight, rook, pawn, rook
location of discovery: Isle of Lewis
named after: Isle of Lewis
quantity: 78, 79
sport: chess
time of discovery or invention: 1833
topic's main category: Category:Lewis chessmen

Nothing in the MetaHistoryBook collection references this item yet.