Ancient board games in perspective : papers from the 1990 British Museum colloquium, with additional contributions / edited by I.L. Finkel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Finkel, Irving L.

British Museum

Louis A. Duhring Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Board games--History.

Board games.

History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vi, 281 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm

Other Title:

Ancient board games

Place of Publication:

London : British Museum Press, [2007]

Summary:

Papers from the first international colloquium on the board games of antiquity, supplemented by additional papers.

Contents:

Preface

Notes on the contributors

Board games in perspective: an introduction / Irving L. Finkel

Homo ludens: the earliest board games in the Near East / St John Simpson

The royal game of Ur / Andrea Becker

On the rules for the royal game of Ur / Irving L. Finekl

Mehen: the ancient Egyptian game of the serpent / Timothy Kendall

Were there gamesters in pharaonic Egypt? / W.J. Tait

The Egyptian game of senet and the migration of the soul / Peter A. Piccione

The game of hounds and jackals / A.J. Hoerth

The Egyptian 'game of twenty squares': is it related to 'marbles' and the game of the snake? / Edgar B. Pusch

Board games and their symbols from Roman times to early Christianity / Anita Rieche

Inscribed imperial Roman gaming-boards / Nicholas Purcell

Notes on pavement games of Greece and Rome / R.C. Bell

Late Roman and Byzantine game boards at Aphrodisias / Charlotte Roueché

Graeco-Roman pavement signs and game boards: a British Museum working typology / R.C. Bell and C.M. Roueché

Game boards at Vijayanagara: a preliminary report / John M. Fritz and David Gibson

Horse coins: pieces for da ma, the Chinese board-game 'driving the horses' / Joe Cribb

An introduction to board games in late imperial China / Andrew Lo

Go in China / John Fairbairn

The beginnings of chess / Michael Mark

Grandmasters of shatranj and the dating of chess / R.D. Keene

Changing cultures: the reception of chess into western Europe in the Middle Ages / Richard Eales

Board games in central Asia and Iran / Grigori L. Semenov

Board games and backgammon in ancient Indian sculpture / Micaela Soar

Notes on the early history of the backgammon family in China / Andrew Lo

A late eleventh-century tabulae set from Gloucester / I.J. Stewart

A brief history of backgammon and the design of the board / Malcolm J. Watkins

An overview of mancala rules and variations / L. Russ

The typological spread of the game of mancala / Philip Townshend

Mancala game boards as African emblems of status / R.A. Walker

The pursuit of hnefatafl / Ian Riddler

Rithmomachia, the philosophers' game: an introduction to its history and rules / Jurgen Stigter

Robert Stewart Culin and New World games / Bonita Freeman-Witthoft

Index.

Notes:

"In September 19990, a three-day colloquium entitled Board Games in the Ancient World took place in the British Museum"--P. 1.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.

ISBN:

9780714111537

0714111538

OCLC:

150371733