{"id":"NOVG2026-001","label":"Novgorod tanged whirring laths","people_or_site":"Medieval Novgorod (Rus')","country_current":"Russia","historic_region":"Novgorod the Great (Sophia and Trade sides)","macroregion":"Europe / Eastern Europe","local_name":"","source_term":"жужжалка","source_language":"Russian","object_description":"Two thin wooden blades with carved terminal tangs, excavated from thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Novgorod contexts.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"GOSKATALOG_NGM_KP44022_304","source_type":"museum_catalog","source_url":"https://novgorod-iss.kamiscloud.ru/entity/OBJECT/494876","page_or_plate":"НГМ КП 44022/304 (инв. А-195/304) and НГМ КП 44219/381 (инв. А-201/381)","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Troitsky excavation site, Lyudin konets, Sophia side — anchor for both finds; the Nikitinsky dig sits 1.3 km northeast on Olovyanka St., Trade side","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Waterlogged excavations at medieval Novgorod preserved two thin wooden whirrers from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Each has a carved head or tang for attaching cord at one end and lacks the central holes typical of excavated twist-buzzers, making a swung bullroarer interpretation plausible but not proven.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"жужжалка: Russian 'buzzer', from жужжать 'to buzz' — the name Russian collections give loosely to any whirled sound toy, whether swung from an end cord or spun on a twisted double cord.","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":true,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"f_archaeology":true,"archaeology_kind":"assemblage","date_display":"13th–14th centuries AD","date_qualification":"","date_basis":"dendro_dated_horizons","date_confidence":"high","date_citation":"GOSKATALOG_NGM_KP44022_304, НГМ КП 44022/304 (инв. А-195/304) and НГМ КП 44219/381 (инв. А-201/381)","sources":[{"citation":"Novgorod State Museum-Reserve, КП 44022/304 (инв. А-195/304; Troitsky excavation) and КП 44219/381 (инв. А-201/381; Nikitinsky excavation, 2003); State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of the Russian Federation, reg. 10418676 and 8729656","url":"https://novgorod-iss.kamiscloud.ru/entity/OBJECT/494876","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013024949/https://novgorod-iss.kamiscloud.ru/entity/OBJECT/494876"}],"source_citations":"Novgorod State Museum-Reserve, КП 44022/304 (инв. А-195/304; Troitsky excavation) and КП 44219/381 (инв. А-201/381; Nikitinsky excavation, 2003); State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of the Russian Federation, reg. 10418676 and 8729656","source_display":"Novgorod State Museum-Reserve, КП 44022/304 (инв. А-195/304; Troitsky excavation) and КП 44219/381 (инв. А-201/381; Nikitinsky excavation, 2003); State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of the Russian Federation, reg. 10418676 and 8729656","date_citation_display":"НГМ КП 44022/304 (инв. А-195/304) and НГМ КП 44219/381 (инв. А-201/381)","object_display":"Two thin wooden blades with carved terminal tangs, excavated from thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Novgorod contexts.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"medieval novgorod","display_name":"Novgorod tanged whirring laths","image":{"full":"assets/objects/NOVG2026-001.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/NOVG2026-001_thumb.jpg","alt":"Long narrow wooden whirring lath from the Troitsky excavation, 13th–14th century, with a small rounded tab at one end and a split pointed tip at the other.","credit":"© Новгородский музей-заповедник (НГМ КП 44022/304)","license":"In copyright — Novgorod Museum-Reserve; rehosted low-res for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://novgorod-iss.kamiscloud.ru/entity/OBJECT/494876","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The object itself: wooden whirring lath from the Troitsky excavation, 13th-14th century."},"slug":"novg2026-001-medieval-novgorod-rus"}