{"id":"ERVYNCK1990-001","label":"Gent rib snorrebot","people_or_site":"Gent Gouvernementstraat early-medieval ditch fill","country_current":"Belgium","historic_region":"East Flanders / Gent, corner of Gouvernementstraat and Borreputsteeg","macroregion":"Europe / Low Countries","local_name":"snorrebot","source_term":"snorrebot","source_language":"Dutch","object_description":"An 11 cm strip cut lengthwise from a cattle-or-horse rib, planed smooth, pierced once at a short end and sharpened along one long edge.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"ervynck1990_gent_gouvernementstraat_p3907","source_type":"archaeological_report","source_url":"https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/gebeurtenissen/334498","page_or_plate":"Ervynck 1990, printed pp. 39-42, identification and sounding within pp. 39-41; STAMblad 1 (2009), pp. 8-9, item 8; inv. P3907","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"OpenStreetMap street anchor for Borreputsteeg at its junction with Gouvernementstraat, Gent - the named excavation corner, so an address-level anchor, not a coordinate for the ditch or the object.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A thin strip of cattle or horse rib came from a medieval ditch in Gent, pierced at one end and sharpened along one edge. Achiel Ervynck called it a snorrebot — a Dutch 'whirring bone' — and tested the design himself. It worked: the curved blade pivoted on its long axis as it flew, producing a sound he admitted was 'not exactly spectacular.'","pull_quote":"De vondst uit de Gouvernementstraat betreft ontegensprekelijk een snorrebot. ... De klank is niet direct spectaculair, maar het werkt!","pull_quote_translation":"The find from the Gouvernementstraat is incontrovertibly a snorrebot. ... The sound is not exactly spectacular, but it works!","pull_quote_cite":"Ervynck 1990:39-41","term_gloss":"snorrebot: Dutch for a 'whirring bone,' an end-holed blade swung freely on a cord.","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","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":"c. 800–1100 AD","date_qualification":"Early-medieval ditch-fill context; object not directly dated.","date_basis":"excavated_context","date_confidence":"medium","date_citation":"ervynck1990_gent_gouvernementstraat_p3907, Ervynck 1990 pp. 39–42; official bibliography https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/gebeurtenissen/334498","sources":[{"citation":"Achiel Ervynck, \"Een snorrebot uit de 9de-11de eeuw: Beenderresten uit de Gouvernementstraat,\" Stadsarcheologie: Bodem en Monument in Gent 14(4) (1990): 39-42","url":"https://www.scribd.com/document/984144639/1990-jg14-nr4","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013033240/https://www.scribd.com/document/984144639/1990-jg14-nr4"},{"citation":"Inventaris Onroerend Erfgoed, \"Archeologische opgravingen Gent,\" excavation event 334498","url":"https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/gebeurtenissen/334498","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013032727/https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/gebeurtenissen/334498"},{"citation":"STAM, STAMblad 1 (2009), pp. 8-9, item 8, inv. P3907"},{"citation":"Viesturs Āboltiņš, \"Cēsu pilī iegūtie dzīvnieku skeleta materiālu priekšmeti,\" Cēsu pils raksti V (2024), pp. 51-52"}],"source_citations":"Achiel Ervynck, \"Een snorrebot uit de 9de-11de eeuw: Beenderresten uit de Gouvernementstraat,\" Stadsarcheologie: Bodem en Monument in Gent 14(4) (1990): 39-42; Inventaris Onroerend Erfgoed, \"Archeologische opgravingen Gent,\" excavation event 334498; STAM, STAMblad 1 (2009), pp. 8-9, item 8, inv. P3907; Viesturs Āboltiņš, \"Cēsu pilī iegūtie dzīvnieku skeleta materiālu priekšmeti,\" Cēsu pils raksti V (2024), pp. 51-52","source_display":"Achiel Ervynck, \"Een snorrebot uit de 9de-11de eeuw: Beenderresten uit de Gouvernementstraat,\" Stadsarcheologie: Bodem en Monument in Gent 14(4) (1990): 39-42; Inventaris Onroerend Erfgoed, \"Archeologische opgravingen Gent,\" excavation event 334498; STAM, STAMblad 1 (2009), pp. 8-9, item 8, inv. P3907; Viesturs Āboltiņš, \"Cēsu pilī iegūtie dzīvnieku…","date_citation_display":"Ervynck 1990 pp. 39–42; official bibliography https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/gebeurtenissen/334498","object_display":"An 11 cm strip cut lengthwise from a cattle-or-horse rib, planed smooth, pierced once at a short end and sharpened along one long edge.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"gent gouvernementstraat","display_name":"Gent rib snorrebot","image":{"full":"assets/objects/ERVYNCK1990-001_gent_gouvernementstraat_stam.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/ERVYNCK1990-001_gent_gouvernementstraat_stam_thumb.jpg","credit":"STAM — Ghent City Museum, Gouvernementstraat find","license":"Reuse license unstated; rehosted at source resolution for noncommercial research","source_page":"https://stamgent.be/en/collection/artworks/snorrebot-uit-de-vroege-middeleeuwen","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The perforated rib snorrebot from an early medieval ditch on the Gouvernementstraat, Gent."},"slug":"ervynck1990-001-gent-gouvernementstraat-early-medieval-ditch-fill"}