Gaming Board Inscribed for Amenhotep III with Separate Sliding Drawer
Description
Object Label: The game called senet, or “passing,” was played for over three thousand years in Egypt. In it, two players rolled stick-like dice to advance their gaming pieces, which in this board were otherwise stored in a sliding drawer. The movement of pieces across the board symbolized the soul’s journey through the underworld, and the game was often included in the tomb. Caption: Gaming Board Inscribed for Amenhotep III with Separate Sliding Drawer, ca. 1390–1353 B.C.E.. Faience, 2 3/16 x 3 1/16 x 8 1/4 in. (5.5 x 7.7 x 21 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 49.56a-b. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
Photograph of a blue faience gaming board set with a separate drawer-like end compartment and cone-shaped pieces standing on the board.
The object is a rectangular, glossy blue faience gaming board with a decorated top surface. The board’s top is subdivided into a grid of dark-lined squares. Several upright, cone-like pieces (likely gaming pieces) sit in rows on the board. Along the left side there is a protruding drawer/end compartment, with a distinct recessed opening, consistent with the catalogue’s “separate sliding drawer” description. The outer surfaces and borders are covered with incised or molded linear decoration and spiral/loop motifs in lighter blue/grayish lines over the darker blue ground. No clearly legible hieroglyphs or inscriptions are visible in this image, and there is no readable Greek/Coptic/Arabic text. The royal dedication to Amenhotep III is not visually confirmable from this photo due to the lack of legible inscriptions or cartouches.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 49.56a-b tier-2
- BKM-Object 3536 tier-2
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