Location
State: Latvia
Region: Zemgale
Town: Jekabpils
Other references to the location
The stone is located in Jekabpils Museum Selonian Unit, in the middle of the courtyard of the museum. Once the stone was located in Selonia, Sunakste parish ‘Dzintari’.
Coordinates
lat=56.4962833333, lon=25.8743166667
56° 29′ 46″ N, 25° 52′ 27″ E
Description
The bowl-shaped stone is 0,5 m high, 0,8 m long and 0,7 m wide, circumference – 2,38 m. There is a bowl-shaped hollow in its surface, which is 33 cm by diameter, up to 14 cm deep. The bowl is round, smoothed. Large-grained red granite.
Narrative
The stone is a bowl-shaped stone, although earlier it was deemed a stone with rounded cone hollow. The present hollow stone bears no side grooves, which are typical to the stones with rounded cone hollows, and the stone is rather small by size; still the hollow is much too large to be deemed a stone with a rounded cone hollow and the stone rather matches a bowl-shaped stone by its shape. To a certain amount the stone is also similar to Christian font. No legends or stories are known about this stone.
Attraction
Interesting and rather well-shaped.
Availability
Very easy accessible; the stone is located in the courtyard of the museum. There is a small parking lot at the museum.
Infrastructure, management, facilities
Since the stone is located in Jekabpils city, any tourism infrastructure is available. In Krustpils town and Jekabpils city (located next to each other) there are accommodation and catering sites, entertainment centres (cinema, theatre, open-air stag
Local info
No information.
Capacity
41 and more
Publicity
Known
Legal Status
Property of State
Comments
The name of the stone refers to the origin of the stone – “Dzintari” in Sunakste parish.
