{"id":"ABOLTINS2024-002","label":"Riga Alksnāja Street rib bullroarer","people_or_site":"Riga, Alksnāja Street 11/13 excavations","country_current":"Latvia","historic_region":"Riga old town","macroregion":"Europe / Baltic","local_name":"","source_term":"","source_language":"Latvian","object_description":"Bullroarer cut from a cattle rib (VI 258:69), 14 cm long, 2.3–3.4 cm wide and 0.7 cm thick, with a waist cut into the narrower end below a round suspension hole. Excavated from deposits of thirteenth- to seventeenth-century Riga.","function_summary":"Entertainment object: whirled on a cord at one end to produce a low, roaring or clattering sound.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"tilko_2016_alksnaja","source_type":"academic_article_pdf","source_url":"https://dspace.lu.lv/bitstreams/321f7a85-111c-4105-8635-3edf2739e030/download","page_or_plate":"Tilko 2016 p. 111, fig. 5 no. 8 (p. 110); Āboltiņš 2024 p. 52","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"OpenStreetMap building centroid for Alksnāja iela 11, Riga — a site-level anchor for the 11/13 excavation, not the find's exact spot.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Beneath Alksnāja Street, archaeologists found up to five metres of Old Riga's undisturbed household layers: timber buildings, ovens stacked one above another, and the debris of fishing and boneworking. From this thirteenth- to seventeenth-century city life came a fourteen-centimetre bullroarer cut from a cattle rib. Its broad blade narrows sharply into a waist beneath the suspension hole—the same rib-bone design recognized at Cēsis Castle and among medieval snorrebot farther west.","pull_quote":"Līdzīgs priekšmets, kas līdz šim nav ticis identificēts, iegūts arī Rīgā, izrakumos Alksnāja ielā.","pull_quote_translation":"A similar object, which until now had not been identified, was also recovered in Riga, in the excavations on Alksnāja Street.","pull_quote_cite":"Viesturs Āboltiņš, Cēsu pils raksti V (2024), p. 52","term_gloss":"","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"f_archaeology":true,"archaeology_kind":"object","date_display":"13th–17th centuries AD","date_qualification":"Alksnāja Street site range; object undated.","date_basis":"deposit_range","date_confidence":"medium","date_citation":"tilko_2016_alksnaja, Tilko 2016 p. 111, fig. 5 no. 8 (p. 110); Āboltiņš 2024 p. 52","sources":[{"citation":"Silvija Tilko, 'Kaula un raga izstrādājumi no arheoloģiski pētītās Alksnāja ielas Rīgā,' Arheoloģija un etnogrāfija 29 (2016), p. 111; fig. 5 no. 8, p. 110","url":"https://dspace.lu.lv/bitstreams/321f7a85-111c-4105-8635-3edf2739e030/download","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261012231900/https://dspace.lu.lv/bitstreams/321f7a85-111c-4105-8635-3edf2739e030/download"},{"citation":"Viesturs Āboltiņš, 'Cēsu pilī iegūtie dzīvnieku skeleta materiālu priekšmeti,' Cēsu pils raksti V (2024), p. 52","url":"https://arheo.cesis.lv/wp-content/uploads/CPR5_ViestursAboltins.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261012231838/https://arheo.cesis.lv/wp-content/uploads/CPR5_ViestursAboltins.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Silvija Tilko, 'Kaula un raga izstrādājumi no arheoloģiski pētītās Alksnāja ielas Rīgā,' Arheoloģija un etnogrāfija 29 (2016), p. 111; fig. 5 no. 8, p. 110; Viesturs Āboltiņš, 'Cēsu pilī iegūtie dzīvnieku skeleta materiālu priekšmeti,' Cēsu pils raksti V (2024), p. 52","source_display":"Silvija Tilko, 'Kaula un raga izstrādājumi no arheoloģiski pētītās Alksnāja ielas Rīgā,' Arheoloģija un etnogrāfija 29 (2016), p. 111; fig. 5 no. 8, p. 110; Viesturs Āboltiņš, 'Cēsu pilī iegūtie dzīvnieku skeleta materiālu priekšmeti,' Cēsu pils raksti V (2024), p. 52","date_citation_display":"Tilko 2016 p. 111, fig. 5 no. 8 (p. 110); Āboltiņš 2024 p. 52","object_display":"Bullroarer cut from a cattle rib (VI 258:69), 14 cm long, 2.3–3.4 cm wide and 0.7 cm thick, with a waist cut into the narrower end below a round suspension hole. Excavated from deposits of thirteenth- to seventeenth-century Riga.","function_display":"Entertainment object: whirled on a cord at one end to produce a low, roaring or clattering sound.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"riga","display_name":"Riga Alksnāja Street rib bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/ABOLTINS2024-002_tilko2016_fig5_8_alksnaja.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/ABOLTINS2024-002_tilko2016_fig5_8_alksnaja_thumb.jpg","alt":"Excavation drawing of the Alksnāja Street rib plate (VI 258:69), with an irregular expanded end pierced by a hole and faint transverse marks across the long blade.","credit":"Silvija Tilko, Arheoloģija un etnogrāfija 29 (2016), fig. 5 no. 8","license":"In copyright — rehosted low-res for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://dspace.lu.lv/bitstreams/321f7a85-111c-4105-8635-3edf2739e030/download","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The Alksnāja Street rib plate (VI 258:69) in the excavation drawing."},"slug":"aboltins2024-002-riga-alksnaja-street-11-13-excavations"}