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Evidence for Qarqis
2 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.2042
Type Ethnography
Location Amhara
Date 1595-01-01 - 1652-12-31
Rules Played on holes in a table. Small balls are used as counters.
Content Lexica entry for Qarqis, provided to Ludolf by Abba Gorgoryos, who traveled to Germany in 1652: "Ludi genus, cum factis aliquot in tabula foraminibus globuli mittuntur: quo genere lusus aliqui ad divinationes abutuntur." Ludolf 1699: 158.
Confidence 100
Source Ludolf, H. 1699. Lexicon Aethiopico-Latinum. London: Thomam Roycroft.
Id DLP.Evidence.2043
Type Contemporary text
Location Amhara
Date 1400-01-01 - 1499-12-31
Rules Name of game.
Content Passing mention of Qarqis in a passage from the Book of the Mysteries of Heaven and Earth, a fifteenth century Ge'ez manuscipt, translated into French: "D'autres parmi eux enseignèrent à travailler le cèdre et le saule; tout cela fut enseigné par Wasag et Abergya dont les têtes brillent dans les nuages: ils apprirent aux hommes à jouer au tabat [Qarqis]; Ner et Zaberenigued leur montrèrent le jeu Atawma, et Akis, le jeu de cirque." Perruchon 1903: 22-23.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Genders Male
Source Perruchon, J. 1903. Le livre des mystères du ciel et de la terre. Paris: Librairie de Paris.
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