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Ancient Roman Chess Knight Piece

7.4g. and 41mm x 11mm

Purchased from C. Auctions, Austria in January 2024.

From a Private European Collection

An outstanding and historically very important piece. A highly attractive example.

Extremely rare, possibly unique.

Although there is no evidence that Julius Caesar, Augustus, Caligula, Nero, or Hadrian understood chess, the later Roman emperors who ruled Byzantium, which did not finally fall to the Turkish forces of Islam until 1453, certainly played chess.

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1000 AD - 1500 AD - Ancient Roman Empire

Ancient Roman, Empire Bone Ancient Roman Chess Knight piece

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Cretaceous, Lower (145 - 100.5 million years)

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Quaternary, Pleistocene (2.58 - 0.0117 million years)

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