Game Piece
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 Piece, ca. 1938–1700 B.C.E.. Faience, 15/16 x Diam. 5/8 in. (2.4 x 1.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 36.3.12. (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 small, conical faience object with a smooth surface.
The image depicts a conical artifact made of faience, characterized by its smooth and glossy surface with a bluish-green hue. The object tapers towards the top and flares at the base. Its simplicity suggests it may be a utilitarian object or part of a larger assemblage.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 36.3.12 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3387 tier-2
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.