Monday 22 June 2020

Game of Hounds and Jackals | Middle Kingdom.

Game board in the form of hippopotamus and three-headed canine chips to play 58 holes. Siliceous faience inlaid glass and wood. Late Period, 664-332 BCE, Egypt © Musée du Louvre
Game of Hounds and Jackals, ca. 1814–1805 B.C. Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, reign of Amenemhat IV. Egypt, Upper Egypt; Thebes, el-Asasif, Tomb of Reniseneb. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926 (26.7.1287). Egyptians likened the intricate voyage through the underworld to a game. This made gaming boards and gaming pieces appropriate objects to deposit in tombs. #dogs
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Board Game of Hounds and Jackals, Ivory and Wood The board is raised on 4 bulls' legs. A drawer with a bolt to store the playing pieces. "Egyptians likened the intricate voyage through the underworld to a game." ca. 1814–1805 BCE. Thebes. Tomb of Reniseneb (CC 25), at bottom of shaft. MET.

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