{"id":"DORST2011-001","label":"Voorstraat snorrebot strip","people_or_site":"Dordrecht, Voorstraat 244, reused indoor cess cellar S86 (finds group V23)","country_current":"Netherlands","historic_region":"South Holland / Dordrecht, Leeuwenburg-Mijnsherenherberg on the Voorstraat","macroregion":"Europe / Low Countries","local_name":"snorrebot","source_term":"onbekend voorwerp / zogeheten snorrebot","source_language":"Dutch","object_description":"A lightly curved strip of bone, probably ivory and possibly walrus ivory, 10.4 x 2.3 x 0.5 cm: slightly hollow on one face, convex on the other, of very fine structure and high polish, pierced once near one end; small facet scars mark where fragments have sprung off the opposite end.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"dorst2011_dordrecht_voorstraat244_snorrebot","source_type":"archaeological_report","source_url":"https://doi.org/10.17026/DANS-ZZV-ZQ34","page_or_plate":"Dorst 2011, printed pp. 58-60, Fig. 74; notes 173, 180 and 181 on printed p. 65","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"OpenStreetMap address point for Voorstraat 244, Dordrecht Centrum - the excavated street address itself, so a plot-level anchor rather than a coordinate for cess cellar S86 within the plot.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A polished strip of ivory lay in a seventeenth-century cess cellar beneath Voorstraat in Dordrecht, pierced once near one end — most likely a children's snorrebot, or 'whirring bone', whose note rose and fell as it was whirled faster or slower. Its high polish leaves room for a working life too, as a small weaving sword or a shoehorn.","pull_quote":"Het gaat hier waarschijnlijk om een zogeheten snorrebot, een soort kinderspeelgoed dat aan een draad boven het hoofd rondgeslingerd wordt en daarbij een snorrend geluid laat horen.","pull_quote_translation":"This is probably a so-called snorrebot, a kind of children's toy that is swung around on a thread above the head and thereby lets a whirring sound be heard.","pull_quote_cite":"Dorst, Graven naar de Graaf, Dordrecht Ondergronds 5 (2011), p. 60","term_gloss":"snorrebot: Dutch for a 'whirring bone,' a cord-swung humming toy.","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":true,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"f_archaeology":true,"archaeology_kind":"object","date_display":"c. 1650–1750 AD","date_qualification":"Cellar assemblage range; object undated.","date_basis":"excavated_context","date_confidence":"low","date_citation":"dorst2011_dordrecht_voorstraat244_snorrebot, Dorst 2011 pp. 58–60 fig. 74","sources":[{"citation":"M. C. Dorst, Graven naar de Graaf: Archeologisch onderzoek naar het laatmiddeleeuwse, grafelijk leen Leeuwenburg/Mijnsherenherberg aan de Voorstraat 244 (Dordrecht Ondergronds 5; Gemeente Dordrecht, 2011), pp. 58-60, fig. 74, and p. 65, notes 173, 180 and 181","url":"https://doi.org/10.17026/DANS-ZZV-ZQ34"}],"source_citations":"M. C. Dorst, Graven naar de Graaf: Archeologisch onderzoek naar het laatmiddeleeuwse, grafelijk leen Leeuwenburg/Mijnsherenherberg aan de Voorstraat 244 (Dordrecht Ondergronds 5; Gemeente Dordrecht, 2011), pp. 58-60, fig. 74, and p. 65, notes 173, 180 and 181","source_display":"M. C. Dorst, Graven naar de Graaf: Archeologisch onderzoek naar het laatmiddeleeuwse, grafelijk leen Leeuwenburg/Mijnsherenherberg aan de Voorstraat 244 (Dordrecht Ondergronds 5; Gemeente Dordrecht, 2011), pp. 58-60, fig. 74, and p. 65, notes 173, 180 and 181","date_citation_display":"Dorst 2011 pp. 58–60 fig. 74","object_display":"A lightly curved strip of bone, probably ivory and possibly walrus ivory, 10.4 x 2.3 x 0.5 cm: slightly hollow on one face, convex on the other, of very fine structure and high polish, pierced once near one end; small facet scars mark where fragments have sprung off the opposite end.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"dordrecht","display_name":"Voorstraat snorrebot strip","image":{"full":"assets/objects/DORST2011-001_dordrecht_fig74.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/DORST2011-001_dordrecht_fig74_thumb.jpg","alt":"The Dordrecht snorrebot from the cess cellar at Voorstraat 244: a pale, smooth rectangular strip with rounded ends and a small suspension hole near one end.","credit":"M. C. Dorst, Dordrecht Ondergronds 5 (2011), fig. 74","license":"No open license stated","source_page":"https://www.dordrecht.nl/","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The polished ivory snorrebot from a cess cellar at Voorstraat 244, Dordrecht."},"slug":"dorst2011-001-dordrecht-voorstraat-244-reused-indoor-cess-cellar-s86-finds-group-v23"}