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Knight chess piece, carving made of jet from western Islamic lands, c. 8th to c. 10th century.
Craftspeople may have skirted prohibitions to playing chess for iconoclastic reasons by developing more abstract pieces, as depicted here, and away from figural ones.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Art, T. M. M. o. (2025, September 11). Knight Chess Piece. World History Encyclopedia. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/20946/knight-chess-piece/
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Art, The Metropolitan Museum of. "Knight Chess Piece." World History Encyclopedia, September 11, 2025. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/20946/knight-chess-piece/.
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