{"id":"ANATOLIA-006","label":"Anitkaya (Egret) firildak","people_or_site":"Anitkaya (formerly Egret), Afyonkarahisar","country_current":"Turkey","historic_region":"Afyonkarahisar","macroregion":"Near East / Anatolia","local_name":"firildak","source_term":"","source_language":"Turkish","object_description":"A board 4 x 15 cm with serrated edges, a string tied to its end, whirled in the air.","function_summary":"Village toy, whirled on its string until it sounds.","attestation_type":"lexical_attestation","source_key":"egret_koy_lexicon","source_type":"lexicon","source_url":"https://egretikoy.blogspot.com/2024/02/fadik-foter.html","page_or_plate":"Egreti Koy lexicon, s.v. firildak","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Approximate Anıtkaya (formerly Eğret), Afyonkarahisar locality anchor; OSM village node 1488514357, corroborated by Getty TGN 1086225; not an object findspot.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"At Anitkaya on the Afyon plain — Egret, in the old name — the firildak was a strip of board four centimetres by fifteen, its edges cut into teeth, a string at its end. Whirled in the air it sounded; that is the whole of the village dictionary's definition, and the whole of the toy. The serrated edge that roughens its voice is the same trick Turkish villages used from Çankırı to Burdur.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"firildak: 'whirler'; at Anitkaya the name covers both the serrated whirled board and a spool toy.","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Egreti Koy village lexicon, s.v. firildak, sense 1","url":"https://egretikoy.blogspot.com/2024/02/fadik-foter.html","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260109134306/https://egretikoy.blogspot.com/2024/02/fadik-foter.html"}],"source_citations":"Egreti Koy village lexicon, s.v. firildak, sense 1","source_display":"Egreti Koy village lexicon, s.v. firildak, sense 1","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A board 4 x 15 cm with serrated edges, a string tied to its end, whirled in the air.","function_display":"Village toy, whirled on its string until it sounds.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"lexical attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"anitkaya","display_name":"Anitkaya (Egret) firildak","image":{"full":"assets/objects/HAD1898-043_maa_1922_391.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/HAD1898-043_maa_1922_391_thumb.jpg","alt":"East Derbyshire bummer, an oak blade toothed along its far half with a bundled cord tied at the squared end.","credit":"Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge, 1922.391","license":"© Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge — rehosted low-res for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/448383/","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"East Derbyshire bummer, a serrated oak blade with cord.","pool_id":"auto-HAD1898-043_maa_1922_391"},"slug":"anatolia-006-anitkaya-formerly-egret-afyonkarahisar"}