Game Board
Description
Object Label: Senet (the passing) was one of the most popular and enduring board games in ancient Egypt. Players moved their gaming pieces along a rectangular board of thirty squares arranged in three parallel rows. Although this blue glazed faience board resembles the traditional senet playing surface, it has only twenty-one squares. Perhaps it was intended as a funerary offering that merely represented a senet board. Although the board and “pawns” displayed here may have formed a set, they could have been assembled from several sources. Caption: Game Board, ca. 1938–1630 B.C.E.. Faience, 1 1/2 × 4 1/4 × 9 1/2 in. (3.8 × 10.8 × 24.1 cm) mount: 1 1/4 × 10 × 4 1/8 in. (3.2 × 25.4 × 10.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 36.2. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A board game with pieces arranged on a rectangular base.
The image depicts an ancient Egyptian board game with a rectangular base and several conical playing pieces made of faience. The base has a grid-like pattern, suggesting positions for the pieces. The board and pieces exhibit a blue-green glaze typical of faience work.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 36.2 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3380 tier-2
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