Game papyrus
The front of the papyrus illustrates four different board games. The largest part is taken up by a game most similar to today's backgammon and ludo, the so-called "Senet" game. The back of the papyrus contains a “handbook”, a cursive-hieroglyphic description of the game pieces and the rules of movement.
New Kingdom (1539-1077 BC)
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Thebes (?)
Acquisizione: Drovetti, Bernardino
Data acquisizione: 1824
Johannes Jüngling (JJ)
hieroglyphs, hieratic
Drawing, Manuel/Handbook
board games
New Kingdom (1539-1077 BC)
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Yes
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Johannes Jüngling (JJ)
hieratic, cursive hieroglyphs
Manuel/Handbook
Bark-of-Re, chapel, council, death, divine manifestation, heart, house, justification, knowledge, libation, Maat, number seven, place, religion, scribe, spell 017, travel, water
New Kingdom (1539-1077 BC)
Dynasty 20 (1190-1077 BC)
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No
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Devéria, T., Mémoires et fragments II, Bibliothèque Égyptologique 5 (Paris 1897), 94-96.
Donadoni-Roveri, A. M. (ed.), Egyptian Civlization. Daily Life (Milan 1988), 246, fig. 349.
Jacquet-Gordon, H. - Piankoff, A., The Wandering of the Soul, Egyptian Religious Texts and Representations 6 (New York 1974), pl. 46.
Piccione, P. A., The Historical Development of the Game of Senet and Its Significance for Egyptian Religion Volume One (Chicago 1990), 101-105. 110-154.
Pusch, E. B., Eine unbeachtete Brettspielart, in: Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 5, 1977, 200.
Pusch, E. B., Das Senet-Brettspiel im Alten Ägypten, Münchner Ägyptologische Studien 38, 1-2 (München 1979), 388. 392-400, pls 99-102.
Seyffarth, G., Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Literatur, Kunst, Mythologie und Geschichte des alten Aegypten. 2 Systema astronomiae Aegyptiacae quadripartitum (Leipzig 1833), pl. 3.
