Chess Piece, Pawn 9th-12th century This chess piece is one of many objects excavated at Nishapur, Iran in 1937 at the site of Sabz Pushana thriving residential neighborhood throughout the 9th and 12th centuries. Made of gray stone with gradations of darker colored veins, the formal elements of this object such as its rounded base, elongated domical shape, and small knob on its top suggest that it would have functioned as a pawn. This object was acquired by the Museum through a division of finds with the Iranian government at the time.. Chess Piece, Pawn 449470

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Chess Piece, Pawn 9th-12th century This chess piece is one of many objects excavated at Nishapur, Iran in 1937 at the site of Sabz Pushana thriving residential neighborhood throughout the 9th and 12th centuries. Made of gray stone with gradations of darker colored veins, the formal elements of this object such as its rounded base, elongated domical shape, and small knob on its top suggest that it would have functioned as a pawn. This object was acquired by the Museum through a division of finds with the Iranian government at the time.. Chess Piece, Pawn 449470

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