gaming-piece
- Museum number
- EA21602
- Description
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Blue glazed composition gaming-piece, conical, with rounded top.
- Dimensions
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Height: 2.50 centimetres
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Width: 1.60 centimetres
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Depth: 1.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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PM I Part 2: p.586
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This shape of gaming piece is one of two shapes associated with the game senet, as it is featured in depictions in tomb paintings, and found with senet gaming-boards. See Egypt’s Golden Age (exhibition catalogue, Boston, 1982): 263-9
- Location
- On display (G61/dc4/sA)
- Condition
- fair
- Acquisition date
- 1887
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA21602
- Registration number
- 1887,1203.30
