Passing from the Middle to the New Kingdom: A Senet Board in the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum. Issue 1 (June 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Crist, Walter
• Is Part Of: Journal of Egyptian archaeology. Volume 105:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 107
• Page End: 113
• Publication Date: 2019-06
• Subjects: Board games -- cultural transmission -- Eighteenth Dynasty -- game tables -- senet; Egypt -- Antiquities -- Periodicals; Antiquities; Egypt; Archäologie; Ägypten; Égypte -- Antiquités -- Périodiques; 6.140; Periodicals; Zeitschrift; Online-Publikation; Electronic journals; 932.005
• DOI: 10.1177/0307513319896288
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0307-5133

Abstract

Egyptian senet boards follow a very consistent morphology that varies in small but notable ways throughout the 2000-year history of the game. A previously unpublished board, in the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose, California, may provide new insight into the evolution of the game in the early New Kingdom. A game table with markings distinctive of the Thutmoside Period, but oriented like Middle Kingdom and Seventeenth Dynasty boards, it is probably a transitional style. It likely dates to the Eighteenth Dynasty before the reign of Hatshepsut, a period to which no other games have previously been securely dated.