Subtitle:

Przegląd Archeologiczny T. 56 (2008)

Publisher:

Instytut Archeolgoii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Wrocław

Description:

ill. ; 29 cm

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Abstract:

The paper presents reinterpretation of function and image of an ivory disc found in 1972 at Ostrow Tumski in Wroclaw, Poland. The author suggests the scene presented on the disc depicts Hercules battling the Lernean Hydra, and the artifact itself is a fragment of a tric-trac pawn. The artifact supposedly originated in 12th century in one of workshops existed in northern France or Cologne

Relation:

Przegląd Archeologiczny

Volume:

56

Start page:

117

End page:

125

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

oai:rcin.org.pl:60179 ; 0079-7138

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. P III 149 ; IAiE PAN, call no. P III 272 ; IAiE PAN, call no. P III 353 ; click here to follow the link

Language:

pol

Language of abstract:

eng

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Free Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. May be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms

Digitizing institution:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Projects co-financed by:

Ministry of Science and Higher Education ; Activities popularizing science (DUN)

Access:

Open