Gameboard and Gaming Pieces
Description
Game Board. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Thutmose III, ca. 1550–1295 B.C. Faience, modern wood. Restored box: L. 43 cm (16 15/16 in.); W. 13.5 cm (5 5/16 in.); H. 9 cm (3 9/16 in.). From: Cemetery D, Tomb D99, Abydos, Northern Upper Egypt, Egypt. Excavation: Egypt Exploration Fund excavations. Subject: Games. Credit: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1901.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
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.
A rectangular board game set with turquoise-blue inlays and a grid-like playing surface, accompanied by multiple turquoise/green faience-like game pieces shaped as conical/stratified pieces.
The image shows a long, rectangular gameboard made of dark brown wood with turquoise-blue panels and cross-shaped/grid decoration on the playing surface. On top of the board are several dark green/blue faience game pieces (conical and wedge-like shapes) arranged in lines across the grid. The board ends and side panels are also turquoise-blue. A shallow drawer-like compartment with a metal handle is visible on the side. Additional loose pieces are scattered on the left foreground. Faint, blocky painted/drawn marks appear in the grid area (including a central band of darker markings), but no clear hieroglyphic text is legible. No cartouches, deities, or readable Greek/Coptic/Arabic inscriptions are visible.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116246548 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 01.4.1a tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544775 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.