Об одной составляющей настольных игр. К постановке проблемы
ENThe excavations in Bokshto street, 6 in Vilnius revealed 5 bone chips ofpyramidal shape. Prior to this only two such chips - one from the hillfort of Punia, theother from the artisans quarter belonging to the bishop were known in Lithuania. Typically, these chips are cut on the top. On the tops or at the sides there is a sign in the formof “X”, “+” or just a few dots on the game bones. The chips date back to the end of the 16th - 17th centuries. In this article we try to answer some questions connected with thepyramidal chips: what do symbols, carved into the upper planes, mean? What game orgames can they be connected with? Why were 5 chips found in one place? How couldthey get there? The assumption about the relationship and the emergence of the pyramidal chips in Lithuania with the Gosievsky family is made.
