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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Piotr</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Are amber tafl pieces made by carving amber or by
melting it and forming the pieces in molds? Your reference to semi finished
pieces suggests carving but is there any evidence of amber being melted and used
to make pieces in molds. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>jon</FONT></DIV>
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href="mailto:piotr.adamczyk@muzeum.elblag.pl">Piotr Adamczyk</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 26, 2008 9:52
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> hist-games: Tafl gaming pieces
from Truso</DIV>
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<DIV>Some time ago there was a discussion about "Hnefatafl material at
Hedeby". Peter Michaelsen mentioned one king gamig piece from a Viking
settlement in Truso. </DIV>
<DIV>This exact hnefi is maed of red amber, almost 3 cm.high</DIV>
<DIV>I've started to count gaming pieces found so far in Truso (i.e. last week
dr Jagodzinski have brought to museum 1 tafl gaming piece mafe of amber, the
second of bone and third unfinished [bone]). </DIV>
<DIV>There was my presentation during the Board Games Studies Colloquium in
Lisboa (IV.2008) about gaming pieces in Truso. So far i can tell (still have
to find time to dig through the boxes from the80's with artefacts from Truso)
that in the Museum of Archaeology and History in Elblag we have (if
I remember well): 41 gaming pieces (c.a. 27 amber gaming pieces), 32
semi-finished (amber) and 8 fragments of gaming pieces + those uncounted from
this year.</DIV>
<DIV>Most of the gaming pieces could be used in the tafl-type games (4 of the
gaming pieces cuold be used fo backgammon type of games).</DIV>
<DIV>I am still writing an article about games in Truso and hope to find a
place to publish it.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Piotr Adamczyk, lecturer in the Department of
Education and Promotion</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Museum of Archaeology and History in
Elblag</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>POLAND</FONT></DIV>
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