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Evidence for Royal Game of Ur
6 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.555
Type Artifact
Location 30°38'59.39"N, 61°23'59.85"E
Ruleset Historical Information
Date 3000-01-01BCE - 2001-12-31BCE
Rules 3x4 grid and a 2x3 grid connected via their central rows with two with two squares between them.
Content 20 Squares game board from Sharh-i-Sokhta, Iran found in a tomb. Piperno & Salvatore 1983: fig 6.
Confidence 100
Source Piperno, M and S. Salvatori. 1983. Recent results and new perspectives from the research at the graveyard of Shahr-I-Sokhta, Sistan, Iran. Annali 43: 172–191.
Id DLP.Evidence.556
Type Artifact
Location 30°57'41.76"N, 46° 6'19.02"E
Ruleset Historical Information
Date 3000-01-01BCE - 2001-12-31BCE
Rules 3x4 grid and a 2x3 grid connected via their central rows with two with two squares between them.
Content 20 Squares game board from Ur, Mesopotamia found in an elite tomb. Woolley 1934: pl. 95a.
Confidence 100
Source Woolley, C.L. 1934. Ur Excavations. Volume 2, The Royal Cemetery. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Id DLP.Evidence.557
Type Artifact
Location 30°57'41.76"N, 46° 6'19.02"E
Ruleset Historical Information
Date 3000-01-01BCE - 2001-12-31BCE
Rules 3x4 grid and a 2x3 grid connected via their central rows with two with two squares between them, markings in squares 4 (x2), 8, 16.
Content 20 Squares game board from Ur, Mesopotamia found in an elite tomb. Wooley 1934: pl 95b.
Confidence 100
Source Woolley, C.L. 1934. Ur Excavations. Volume 2, The Royal Cemetery. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Id DLP.Evidence.558
Type Artifact
Location 30°57'41.76"N, 46° 6'19.02"E
Ruleset Historical Information
Date 3000-01-01BCE - 2001-12-31BCE
Rules 3x4 grid and a 2x3 grid connected via their central rows with two with two squares between them, markings in squares 4(x2), 8, 16.
Content 20 Squares game board from Ur, Mesopotamia found in an elite tomb. Woolley 1934: pl.96.
Confidence 100
Source Woolley, C.L. 1934. Ur Excavations. Volume 2, The Royal Cemetery. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Id DLP.Evidence.632
Type Artifact
Location 38°12'50.31"N, 62° 2'16.31"E
Ruleset Historical Information
Date 2400-01-01BCE - 1900-12-31BCE
Rules 3x4 grid and a 2x3 grid connected via their central rows with two with two squares between them.
Content Ivory inlays from Gonur Depe found in the pattern of the Royal Game of Ur from Tomb 2900. Frenez 2018: 20-22; Sarianidi 2007: 152.
Confidence 100
Source Frenez, D. 2018. Manufacturing and trade of Asian elephant ivory in Bronze Age Middle Asia. Evidence from Gonur Depe (Margiana, Turkmenistan). Archaeological Research in Asia 15: 13–33.
, Sarianidi, V. I. 2007. Necropolis of Gonur. Athens: Kapon Editions.
Id DLP.Evidence.633
Type Artifact
Location 38°12'50.31"N, 62° 2'16.31"E
Date 2400-01-01BCE - 1900-12-31BCE
Rules 3x4 grid and a 2x3 grid connected via their central rows with two with two squares between them.
Content Royal game of Ur from Gonur Depe, Tomb 3210. Frenez 2018: 20-22; Sarianidi 2008: 203-204.
Confidence 100
Source Frenez, D. 2018. Manufacturing and trade of Asian elephant ivory in Bronze Age Middle Asia. Evidence from Gonur Depe (Margiana, Turkmenistan). Archaeological Research in Asia 15: 13–33.
, Sarianidi, V. I. 2007. Necropolis of Gonur. Athens: Kapon Editions.
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