gaming boards

Rectangular slab of green/grey siltstone used as board for Senet game. On one side there are 3 X 10 squares engraved with double lines and the following hieroglyphic signs/groups in the lower right hand corner squares from the right Hr, ntry, ntrw, mw, s3. A handle with three grooves is carved at the same end and the back there are three columns containing eleven circles, the one in the centre having six petals incised in it.

Bought

- William Matthew Flinders Petrie, Objects of Daily Use

26th Dynasty - () 30th Dynasty

LDUCE-UC2317

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology