Game board for Senet game Yale University Art Gallery

1200–1085 B.C.

Medium: Limestone
Dimensions: 16 9/16 × 6 7/8 × 1 15/16 in. (42 × 17.5 × 5 cm)
Credit Line: Anonymous gift
Accession Number: 1937.161
Culture: Egyptian
Period: New Kingdom, Dynasty 20
Classification: Toys and Games
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Provenance

Maurice Nahman, Cairo, 1920.

Bibliography

Gerry D. Scott, III, Ancient Egyptian Art at Yale, 1st (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 108–109, no. 60, ill.

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