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Evidence for Patolli
50 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1329
Type Artistic depiction
Location Mixtec
Ruleset Type 1
Date 1300-01-01 - 1399-12-31
Rules Square track, nine squares per side, nine in each crossed central track. Loops on the corners with three spaces in each loop.
Content Depiction of a game board in Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I. Square-type board with two central tracks that cross one another, and loops on the corners of the square. Nine squares on each side and each central track, three in each loop. Swezey and Bittman 1983: 377.
Confidence 100
Source Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I., Swezey, W. and B. Bittman. 1983. "El rectángulo de cintas y el patolli: nueva evidencia de la antiguuedad, distribucíon, variedad y formas de practicar este juego precolumbino." Mesoamérica 6:374-416.
Id DLP.Evidence.1330
Type Artistic depiction
Location Mixtec
Ruleset Type 1
Date 1300-01-01 - 1399-12-31
Rules Square track, nine squares per side, nine in each crossed central track. Loops on the corners with three spaces in each loop.
Content Depiction of a game board in Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I. Square-type board with two central tracks that cross one another, and loops on the corners of the square. Nine squares on each side and each central track, three in each loop. Some of the squares are rendered as triangles. Swezey and Bittman 1983: 377.
Confidence 100
Source Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I., Swezey, W. and B. Bittman. 1983. "El rectángulo de cintas y el patolli: nueva evidencia de la antiguuedad, distribucíon, variedad y formas de practicar este juego precolumbino." Mesoamérica 6:374-416.
Id DLP.Evidence.1331
Type Artistic depiction
Location Aztec Core
Ruleset Type 1
Date 1504-01-01 - 1521-12-31
Rules Square board with looped corners, crossed tracks in the center which also loop at their intersections with each other and the square track.
Content Drawing of a game board in the Codex Borbonicus. Square board with looping corners, crossed central tracks which also loop at their intersection and the square track. Tracks are marked with squares, but irregularly, approximately nine or ten in each track. Swezey and Bittman 1983: 380 give a poor drawing of the original.
Confidence 100
Source Codex Borbonicus., Swezey, W. and B. Bittman. 1983. "El rectángulo de cintas y el patolli: nueva evidencia de la antiguuedad, distribucíon, variedad y formas de practicar este juego precolumbino." Mesoamérica 6:374-416.
Id DLP.Evidence.1332
Type Artistic depiction
Location Borgia
Ruleset Type 1
Date 1475-01-01 - 1499-12-31
Rules Square board with looping corners and central tracks. Four spaces on each side of the board, loops with three spaces each. Nine spaces in each central track. Four beans used as dice.
Content Depiction of two gods playing a game from the Codex Borgia (f. 62). The board is square with looping corners and central track, four spaces on each side of the square with three spaces in each loop and nine in each central track. Four beans are seen next to the board.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Genders Male
Source Codex Borgia.
Id DLP.Evidence.1333
Type Artistic depiction
Location Mixtec
Ruleset Type 1
Date 1475-01-01 - 1499-12-31
Rules Square board with looped corners and crossed central tracks. Four or seven spaces per side, three per loop, eleven per crossed track.
Content Depiction of a game board in the Codex Vaticanus B (3773) (f. 67). Square board with looped corners and crossed central tracks, divided into squares. Four or seven per side of the square, eleven in the crossed tracks, three in each loop.
Confidence 100
Source Codex Vaticanus B.
Id DLP.Evidence.1334
Type Artifact
Location 16°30'48.70"N, 90° 3'40.94"W
Ruleset Type 2
Date 0830-01-01 - 1000-12-31
Rules Square board, eleven spaces per side, with two crossed internal tracks of eleven spaces each.
Content Type 2 Patolli board found on an altar in front of Stela 10 at Seibal, Guatemala. Eleven squares per side, and in each inner track. The central space is marked with an X. Smith 1977: 356, fig. 4-5.
Confidence 100
Social status Elite
Spaces Outside, Public, Ritual
Source Smith, A. 1977. "Patolli, at the Ruins of Seibal, Petèn, Guatemala." In N. Hammond (ed.), Social Process in Maya Prehistory: Studies in Honor of Sir Eric Thompson. London: Academic Press, 349-363.
Id DLP.Evidence.1335
Type Artifact
Location 16°30'48.70"N, 90° 3'40.94"W
Ruleset Type 2
Date 0830-01-01 - 1000-12-31
Rules Square board, eleven spaces per side, with two crossed internal tracks of eleven spaces each.
Content Type 2 Patolli board found on an altar in front of Stela 22 at Seibal, Guatemala. Eleven squares per side, and in each inner track. The central space is marked with an X. Smith 1977: 356.
Confidence 100
Social status Elite
Spaces Outside, Public, Ritual
Source Smith, A. 1977. "Patolli, at the Ruins of Seibal, Petèn, Guatemala." In N. Hammond (ed.), Social Process in Maya Prehistory: Studies in Honor of Sir Eric Thompson. London: Academic Press, 349-363.
Id DLP.Evidence.1336
Type Artifact
Location 20° 3'51.69"N, 99°20'26.43"W
Ruleset Type 2
Date 0900-01-01 - 1200-12-31
Rules Square board with crossed inner tracks, eleven squares per side and inner track.
Content Graffiti Type 2 Patolli game from the Burned Palace at Tula. Square board with crossed inner tracks, eleven squares per side and inner track. Acosta 1960: 43, 48-58, Pl. XXI.
Confidence 100
Spaces Inside, Private, Monumental
Source Acosta, J. 1960. "La Doceava Temporada de Exploraciones en Tula, Hidalgo." Anales del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e HIstoria 42(13): 29-58.
Id DLP.Evidence.1337
Type Artifact
Location 20° 3'51.54"N, 99°20'26.48"W
Ruleset Type 2
Date 0900-01-01 - 1200-12-31
Rules Square board with crossed inner tracks, eleven squares per side and inner track.
Content Graffiti Type 2 Patolli game from the Burned Palace at Tula. Square board with crossed inner tracks, eleven squares per side and inner track. Acosta 1960: 43, 48-58, Pl. XXII.
Confidence 100
Spaces Inside, Private, Monumental
Source Acosta, J. 1960. "La Doceava Temporada de Exploraciones en Tula, Hidalgo." Anales del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e HIstoria 42(13): 29-58.
Id DLP.Evidence.1338
Type Artifact
Location 20° 3'52.29"N, 99°20'28.66"W
Ruleset Type 2
Date 0900-01-01 - 1200-12-31
Rules Square board with crossed inner tracks, eleven squares per side and inner track.
Content Graffiti Type 2 Patolli game from the Burned Palace at Tula. Square board with crossed inner tracks, eleven squares per side and inner track. Acosta 1960: 43, 48-58, Pl. XXIII.
Confidence 100
Spaces Inside, Private, Monumental
Source Acosta, J. 1960. "La Doceava Temporada de Exploraciones en Tula, Hidalgo." Anales del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e HIstoria 42(13): 29-58.
Id DLP.Evidence.1339
Type Artifact
Location 20° 3'52.04"N, 99°20'28.59"W
Ruleset Type 1
Date 0900-01-01 - 1200-12-31
Rules Square board with eleven spaces per side, and looped corners with three squares per loop. The central square on two opposite sides of the board has a short perpendicular track projecting out, of three spaces.
Content Graffiti Tula Type Patolli game from the Burned Palace at Tula. Square board with eleven spaces per side, and looped corners with three squares per loop. The central square on two opposite sides of the board has a short perpendicular track projecting out, of three spaces.. Acosta 1960: 43, 48-58, Pl. XXIV.
Confidence 100
Spaces Inside, Private, Monumental
Source Acosta, J. 1960. "La Doceava Temporada de Exploraciones en Tula, Hidalgo." Anales del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e HIstoria 42(13): 29-58.
Id DLP.Evidence.1340
Type Artifact
Location 20° 3'51.44"N, 99°20'28.63"W
Ruleset Type 1
Date 0900-01-01 - 1200-12-31
Rules Square board with eleven spaces per side, and looped corners with three squares per loop. The central square on two adjacent sides of the board has a short perpendicular track, one projecting out, of five spaces, and one of seven, projecting in.
Content Graffiti Tula Type Patolli game from the Burned Palace at Tula. Square board with eleven spaces per side, and looped corners with three squares per loop. The central square on two adjacent sides of the board has a short perpendicular track, one projecting out, of five spaces, and one of seven, projecting in. Acosta 1960: 43, 48-58, Pl. XXV.
Confidence 100
Spaces Inside, Private, Monumental
Source Acosta, J. 1960. "La Doceava Temporada de Exploraciones en Tula, Hidalgo." Anales del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e HIstoria 42(13): 29-58.
Id DLP.Evidence.1341
Type Artifact
Location 20° 3'51.59"N, 99°20'28.77"W
Ruleset Type 1
Date 0900-01-01 - 1200-12-31
Rules Square board with eleven spaces per side, and looped corners with three squares per loop. The central square on one sides of the board has a short perpendicular track projecting out, of four spaces.
Content Graffiti Tula Type Patolli game from the Burned Palace at Tula. Square board with eleven spaces per side, and looped corners with three squares per loop. The central square on one sides of the board has a short perpendicular track projecting out, of four spaces. Acosta 1960: 43, 48-58, Pl. XXVI.
Confidence 100
Spaces Inside, Private, Monumental
Source Acosta, J. 1960. "La Doceava Temporada de Exploraciones en Tula, Hidalgo." Anales del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e HIstoria 42(13): 29-58.
Id DLP.Evidence.1342
Type Artifact
Location 16°29'17.84"N, 85°51'40.51"W
Ruleset Type 1
Date 1000-01-01 - 1525-12-31
Rules Square board with looped corners and crossed central tracks. Eleven spaces per side, three per loop, eleven per crossed track.
Content Graffiti game 3 from Plan Grande, Honduras. Founs on a rock on the surface. Square board with looped corners and crossed central tracks. Eleven spaces per side, three per loop, thirteen per crossed track with an extra space extending outside the edge of the square. Fecher 2019:626-627.
Confidence 100
Spaces Outside
Source Fecher, F. 2019. "Patolli Petroglyphs in Northeast Honduras." Latin American Antiquity 30(3): 624-629.
Id DLP.Evidence.1343
Type Artifact
Location 16°29'17.84"N, 85°51'40.51"W
Ruleset Type 1
Date 1000-01-01 - 1525-12-31
Rules Square board with looped corners and crossed central tracks. Eleven spaces per side, three per loop, eleven per crossed track.
Content Graffiti game 1 from Plan Grande, Honduras. Found on a rock on the surface. Square board with looped corners and crossed central tracks. Eleven spaces per side, three per loop, eleven per crossed track with an extra space extending outside the edge of the square. Feachem 1940: 184-186; Fecher 2019:626-627.
Confidence 100
Spaces Outside
Source Feachem, R. 1940. "The Bay Islands, Gulf of Honduras." The Geographical Journal 96(3): 181-189., Fecher, F. 2019. "Patolli Petroglyphs in Northeast Honduras." Latin American Antiquity 30(3): 624-629.
Id DLP.Evidence.1344
Type Artifact
Location 15°10'37.94"N, 85° 0'43.26"W
Ruleset Type 1
Date 250-01-01 - 1525-12-31
Rules Square board with looped corners and crossed central tracks. Eleven spaces per side, three per loop, eleven per crossed track.
Content Graffiti game from Sawacito, Honduras. Found on a rock on the surface. Square board with looped corners and crossed central tracks. Eleven spaces per side, three per loop, eleven per crossed track. Fecher 2019:627-628.
Confidence 100
Source Fecher, F. 2019. "Patolli Petroglyphs in Northeast Honduras." Latin American Antiquity 30(3): 624-629.
Id DLP.Evidence.1345
Type Artifact
Location 17°29'0.86"N, 92° 2'49.32"W
Ruleset Type 2
Date 0683-01-01 - 1000-01-01
Rules Square board with crossed inner tracks, eleven squares per side and inner track.
Content Type 2 graffiti Patolli board from the Templo de Inscripciones at Palenque. Square board with crossed inner tracks, eleven squares per side and inner track.Ruz Lhuillier 1951: 27; Acosta 1960: 57-58; Smith 1977: 358.
Confidence 100
Spaces Public, Ritual, Monumental
Source Acosta, J. 1960. "La Doceava Temporada de Exploraciones en Tula, Hidalgo." Anales del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e HIstoria 42(13): 29-58., Ruz Lhuillier, A. 1951. "Exploraciones en Palenque: 19950." Anales del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia 33(5): 25-46., Smith, A. 1977. "Patolli, at the Ruins of Seibal, Petèn, Guatemala." In N. Hammond (ed.), Social Process in Maya Prehistory: Studies in Honor of Sir Eric Thompson. London: Academic Press, 349-363.
Id DLP.Evidence.1346
Type Artifact
Location 17° 5'16.83"N, 89° 8'30.41"W
Ruleset Type 2
Date 0600-01-01 - 0775-12-31
Rules Square board, eleven spaces per side, with two crossed internal tracks of eleven spaces each. Markings in the four corners, central square, and middle square of each side of the square.
Content Graffiti game board from Building A-11 at Xunantunich, Belize. Square board, eleven spaces per side, with two crossed internal tracks of eleven spaces each.Square board, eleven spaces per side, with two crossed internal tracks of eleven spaces each. Four corners, central square, and middle square of each side of the square marked with an "X". Swezey and Bittman 1983: Fig. 10a; Smith 1977: 358.
Confidence 100
Source Smith, A. 1977. "Patolli, at the Ruins of Seibal, Petèn, Guatemala." In N. Hammond (ed.), Social Process in Maya Prehistory: Studies in Honor of Sir Eric Thompson. London: Academic Press, 349-363., Swezey, W. and B. Bittman. 1983. "El rectángulo de cintas y el patolli: nueva evidencia de la antiguuedad, distribucíon, variedad y formas de practicar este juego precolumbino." Mesoamérica 6:374-416.
Id DLP.Evidence.1347
Type Artifact
Location 17° 5'16.83"N, 89° 8'30.41"W
Ruleset Type 2
Date 0600-01-01 - 0775-12-31
Rules Square board, eleven spaces per side, with two crossed internal tracks of eleven spaces each. Markings in the four corners, central square, and middle square of each side of the square.
Content Two graffiti game boards from Building A-11 at Xunantunich, Belize. Square board, eleven spaces per side, with two crossed internal tracks of eleven spaces each.Square board, eleven spaces per side, with two crossed internal tracks of eleven spaces each. Swezey and Bittman 1983: Fig. 11a; Smith 1977: 358.
Confidence 100
Source Smith, A. 1977. "Patolli, at the Ruins of Seibal, Petèn, Guatemala." In N. Hammond (ed.), Social Process in Maya Prehistory: Studies in Honor of Sir Eric Thompson. London: Academic Press, 349-363., Swezey, W. and B. Bittman. 1983. "El rectángulo de cintas y el patolli: nueva evidencia de la antiguuedad, distribucíon, variedad y formas de practicar este juego precolumbino." Mesoamérica 6:374-416.
Id DLP.Evidence.1348
Type Artifact
Location 17° 5'16.83"N, 89° 8'30.41"W
Ruleset Type 2
Date 0600-01-01 - 0775-12-31
Rules Square board with crossed inner tracks, eleven squares per side and inner track.
Content Two graffiti game boards from Building A-11 at Xunantunich, Belize. Square board, eleven spaces per side, with two crossed internal tracks of eleven spaces each.Square board, eleven spaces per side, with two crossed internal tracks of eleven spaces each. Swezey and Bittman 1983: Fig. 11b; Smith 1977: 358.
Confidence 100
Source Smith, A. 1977. "Patolli, at the Ruins of Seibal, Petèn, Guatemala." In N. Hammond (ed.), Social Process in Maya Prehistory: Studies in Honor of Sir Eric Thompson. London: Academic Press, 349-363., Swezey, W. and B. Bittman. 1983. "El rectángulo de cintas y el patolli: nueva evidencia de la antiguuedad, distribucíon, variedad y formas de practicar este juego precolumbino." Mesoamérica 6:374-416.
Id DLP.Evidence.1350
Type Artistic depiction
Location 19°19'0.13"N, 98°14'14.28"W
Ruleset Type 2
Date 1500-01-01 - 1550-12-31
Rules Square board with crossed central tracks, eleven by eight by fourteen by nine in the square, nine and thirteen in the crossed tracks.
Content Depiction of the god Xochiquetzal playing on a Patolli board. Square board with crossed central tracks, eleven by eight by fourteen by nine in the square, nine and thirteen in the crossed tracks.From the Codex Tonalámatl de Aubin, p. 19. Gallegos Gómora 1994:15.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Genders Male
Source Codex Tonalámatl de Aubin., Gallegos Gómora, M. 1994. "Un patolli prehispánico en Calakmul, Campeche." Revista Española de Antropología Americana 29: 9-24.
Id DLP.Evidence.1351
Type Artifact
Location 18° 6'19.06"N, 89°48'37.39"W
Ruleset Type 2
Date 0600-01-01 - 1500-12-31
Rules Square board with crossed inner tracks, eleven spaces per side in the square and eleven in each crossed track.
Content Graffiti board from Structure VII at Calakmul. Mexico. Incised into the floor of a palace. Square board with crossed inner tracks, eleven spaces per side in the square and eleven in each crossed track. Gallegos Gómora 1994: 9-11.
Confidence 100
Spaces Private, Monumental
Source Gallegos Gómora, M. 1994. "Un patolli prehispánico en Calakmul, Campeche." Revista Española de Antropología Americana 29: 9-24.
Id DLP.Evidence.1352
Type Artifact
Location 18°31'1.29"N, 89°27'59.71"W
Date 0600-01-02 - 0900-12-31
Rules Square board with central crossed tracks, eleven spaces per side and central track.
Content Graffiti Type 2 Patolli game board from Structure IV at Becán, Mexico. Placed near the entrance of a private elite building. Hochmann 1987: 56-57; Gallegos Gómora 1994: 16.
Confidence 100
Social status Elite
Spaces Private, Ritual, Household, Transitional
Source Gallegos Gómora, M. 1994. "Un patolli prehispánico en Calakmul, Campeche." Revista Española de Antropología Americana 29: 9-24., Hohmann. H. 1987. "A Patolli Design at Becán, Campeche." Mexicon 9(3): 56-57.
Id DLP.Evidence.1353
Type Artifact
Location 16°56'10.85"N, 88°23'18.17"W
Date 0850-01-01 - 1200-12-31
Rules Square board with inner tracks, eleven spaces on one side, fourth and eighth spaces on each side marked, third in central track marked.
Content Type 2 Patolli slate game board found at Maintzunun, Belize. Broken, eleven spaces preserved on one complete side of square, and portion of two sides and one of the central tracks also preserved. The fourth and eight spaces in the complete side are marked, as is the fourth in the two broken sides and the third space in the central track. Found on the surface. Graham 1994: 289, Fig. 8.5a.
Confidence 100
Source Graham, E. 1994. The Highlands of the Lowlands: Environment and Archaeology in the Stann Creek District, Belize, Central America. Madison: Prehistory Press.
Id DLP.Evidence.1354
Type Artifact
Location 16°48'6.62"N, 88°23'54.71"W
Date 0850-01-01 - 1200-12-31
Rules Square board with crossed inner tracks, eleven spaces per side, fourth space on side marked, second, third, and fourth in inner track marked.
Content Slate game board from Kendal, Belize, found on the surface. Roughly one-quarter of the board preserved; with the intersections of the inner track with one side and the center intact, therefore able to infer eleven per side and inner track. The fourth space on side is marked, as are the second, third, and fourth in the inner track. Graham 1994: 290, Fig. 8.5b.
Confidence 100
Source Graham, E. 1994. The Highlands of the Lowlands: Environment and Archaeology in the Stann Creek District, Belize, Central America. Madison: Prehistory Press.
Id DLP.Evidence.1355
Type Artifact
Location 16°59'39.40"N, 88°22'7.70"W
Date 250-01-01 - 1550-12-31
Rules Square board with crossed inner tracks, eleven per side and crossed track.
Content Reused stone Type 2 Patolli game board covering a drain at the bottom of Mamie Hill in Pomona, Belize. Square board with crossed inner tracks, eleven per side and crossed track, though some of the tracks are damaged. Currently in the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Date unknown. Smith 1977: 359; Gallego Gómora 1994: 17.
Confidence 100
Source Gallegos Gómora, M. 1994. "Un patolli prehispánico en Calakmul, Campeche." Revista Española de Antropología Americana 29: 9-24., Smith, A. 1977. "Patolli, at the Ruins of Seibal, Petèn, Guatemala." In N. Hammond (ed.), Social Process in Maya Prehistory: Studies in Honor of Sir Eric Thompson. London: Academic Press, 349-363.
Id DLP.Evidence.1356
Type Artifact
Location 17°13'18.02"N, 89°37'25.02"W
Date 0250-01-01 - 0600-12-31
Rules Square board with crossed inner tracks, eleven spaces per side and track.
Content Graffiti Type 2 Patolli game board found in a plaster floor in the northeast corner of the North Acropolis at Tikal. Dated to the Early Classic Period. Square board with crossed inner tracks, eleven spaces per side and track. Walden and Voorhies 2017: 209; Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes 2015.
Confidence 100
Source Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes.
2015. "Se realiza en Petén presentación de de hallazgo arqueológico Maya. Noticias, posted July 9, 2015. Gobierno de Guatemala. http://mcd.gob.gt/se-realiza-en-peten-presentacion-de-hallazgo-arqueologico-maya/. Accessed 13 July 2020., Walden, J. and B. Voorhies. 2017. "Ancient May Patolli." In B. Voorhies, (ed), Prehistoric Games of North American Indians. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 197-218/
Id DLP.Evidence.1358
Type Artifact
Location 17°13'18.02"N, 89°37'25.02"W
Date 0600-01-02 - 1000-12-31
Rules Square board with crossed inner tracks, eleven spaces per side and per track. Corner spaces, central space, and space where inner tracks intersect with the square are marked.
Content Graffiti Type 2 Patolli game board on a bench in Structure 5D-38 at Tikal, Guatemala. Square board with crossed inner tracks, eleven spaces per side and per track. Corner spaces, central space, and space where inner tracks intersect with the square are marked. Trik and Kampen 1983: Fig. 45d; Gallegos Gómora 1994:17.
Confidence 100
Spaces Inside, Public, Monumental
Source Gallegos Gómora, M. 1994. "Un patolli prehispánico en Calakmul, Campeche." Revista Española de Antropología Americana 29: 9-24., Trik, H. and M. Kampen. 1983. The Graffiti of Tikal. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Id DLP.Evidence.1359
Type Artifact
Location 17°13'18.02"N, 89°37'25.02"W
Date 0600-01-01 - 1000-12-31
Rules Square board with crossed inner tracks. Eleven spaces per side and per inner track.
Content Two graffiti Type 2 Patolli boards found on a bench in Rom 1b of Structure 5D-54 at Tikal, Guatemala. Both boards intended to be square with crossed inner tracks and eleven spaces per side and per inner track, but one has twelve on one side and the central tracks which do not line up as a result of this error. Trik and Kampen 1983: Fig. 61.c; Gallegos Gómora 1994: 17.
Confidence 100
Id DLP.Evidence.1360
Type Artifact
Location 17°13'18.02"N, 89°37'25.02"W
Date 0600-01-01 - 1000-12-31
Rules Square board with crossed inner tracks, eleven spaces per side and per track.
Content Graffiti Type 2 Patolli game board from the Temple of the Inscriptions at Tikal, Guatemala. Square board with crossed inner tracks, eleven spaces per side and per track. Trik and Kampen 1983: Fig. 98.b.
Confidence 100
Spaces Ritual, Monumental
Source Trik, H. and M. Kampen. 1983. The Graffiti of Tikal. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Id DLP.Evidence.1361
Type Artifact
Location 17°13'18.02"N, 89°37'25.02"W
Date 0600-01-01 - 1000-12-31
Rules Square board with crossed inner tracks, eleven spaces per side and per track.
Content Graffiti Type 2 Patolli game board from the Temple of the Inscriptions at Tikal, Guatemala. Square board with crossed inner tracks, eleven spaces per side and per track. Trik and Kampen 1983: Fig. 98.a.
Confidence 100
Spaces Ritual, Monumental
Source Trik, H. and M. Kampen. 1983. The Graffiti of Tikal. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Id DLP.Evidence.1362
Type Artifact
Location 17°10'32.85"N, 89°24'18.72"W
Date 0600-01-01 - 1000-12-31
Rules Square board with crossed inner tracks. Eleven spaces per side and inner track; corner spaces and spaces where the innter tracks intersect with the square are marked.
Content Graffiti Type 2 Patolli game board from Temple A at Nakum, Guatemala. Square board with crossed inner tracks. Eleven spaces per side and inner track; corner spaces and spaces where the innter tracks intersect with the square are marked with an "X". Tozzer 1913: 159-160; Gallegos Gómora 1994: 18.
Confidence 100
Spaces Ritual, Monumental
Source Gallegos Gómora, M. 1994. "Un patolli prehispánico en Calakmul, Campeche." Revista Española de Antropología Americana 29: 9-24., Tozzer, A. 1913. A Preliminary Study of the Prehistoric Ruins of Nakum, Guatemala. Cambridge: Peabody Museum.
Id DLP.Evidence.1363
Type Artifact
Location 16°38'44.77"N, 88°34'47.07"W
Date 0600-01-01 - 1000-12-31
Rules Square board with crossed inner tracks. Eleven spaces per side and track, fourth and eighth space in each side marked, as well as the central space and third and ninth in one of the inner tracks.
Content Graffiti Type 2 Patolli game board from Lagarto, Belize. Square board with crossed inner tracks; eleven spaces per side and track. The fourth and eighth space in each side are marked with a dot, as well as the central space and third and ninth in one of the inner tracks. Monument 12. Wanyerka 1999: 111.
Confidence 100
Source Wanyerka, P. 1999. "Pecked Cross and Patolli Petroglyphs of the Lagarto Ruins, Stann Creek District, Belize." Mexicon 21: 108-112.
Id DLP.Evidence.1364
Type Artifact
Location 16°38'44.77"N, 88°34'47.07"W
Date 0600-01-01 - 1000-12-31
Rules Square board with crossed inner tracks. Eleven spaces per side and track, fourth space in one side marked, as well as the central space.
Content Graffiti Type 2 Patolli game board from Lagarto, Belize. Some of the spaces are damaged, enough is preserved to determine the original layout. Eleven spaces per side and track, fourth space in one side is marked with a dot, as well as the central space. Monument 5. Wanyerka 1999: 110.
Confidence 100
Source Wanyerka, P. 1999. "Pecked Cross and Patolli Petroglyphs of the Lagarto Ruins, Stann Creek District, Belize." Mexicon 21: 108-112.
Id DLP.Evidence.1365
Type Artifact
Location 16°38'44.77"N, 88°34'47.07"W
Date 0600-01-01 - 1000-12-31
Rules Square board with crossed inner tracks. Eleven spaces per side and inner track; each inner track has squares flanking either side of the square before the final square in the track that is also part of the square's side. Central square is marked.
Content Graffiti Type 2 Patolli game board from Lagarto, Belize. Square board with crossed inner tracks. Eleven spaces per side and inner track; each inner track has squares flanking either side of the square before the final square in the track that is also part of the square's side. Central square is marked with a dot. Monument 10. Wanyerka 1999: 110-111.
Confidence 100
Source Wanyerka, P. 1999. "Pecked Cross and Patolli Petroglyphs of the Lagarto Ruins, Stann Creek District, Belize." Mexicon 21: 108-112.
Id DLP.Evidence.1366
Type Artifact
Location 17°32'19.91"N, 89° 6'40.96"W
Date 0600-01-01 - 1000-12-31
Rules Square board with crossed inner tracks.
Content Graffiti Type 2 Patolli game board found on a bench in Room 2 of Structure C-6 at Chan Chich, Belize. Square board with inner crossed tracks, board not drawn well enough to determine number of squares. Harrison 2000: 80-82.
Confidence 100
Social status Elite
Spaces Inside
Source Harrison, E. 2000. "Structure C-6: Excavation of an Elite Compound. In B. Houk (ed), The 1998 and 1999 Seasons of the Chan Chich Archaeological Project. Austin: University of Texas, 71-93.
Id DLP.Evidence.1367
Type Artifact
Location 17° 5'16.83"N, 89° 8'30.41"W
Date 0700-01-01 - 0900-12-31
Rules Square board with inner crossed tracks.
Content Graffiti Type 2 Patolli game board found in the entryway of Room 11 at Structure A13 at Xunantunich, Belize. Square board with inner crossed tracks. GR1. Watkins et al. 2020: 129.
Confidence 100
Social status Elite
Spaces Inside, Private
Source Watkins, T, C. Ebert, G. Saldaña, J. Can, and J. Awe. 2020. "Continued Investigation of Graffiti at Plaza A-III: The 2019 Excavations at Structure A13." In C. Ebert, J. Walden, J. Hoggarth and J. Awe (eds), The Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance Project: A Report of the 2019 Field Season. Flagstaff: Northern Arizona University, 125-136.
Id DLP.Evidence.1368
Type Artifact
Location 17° 5'16.83"N, 89° 8'30.41"W
Date 0700-01-01 - 0900-12-31
Rules Square board with inner crossed tracks.
Content Graffiti Type 2 Patolli game board found in the bench of Room 11 at Structure A13 at Xunantunich, Belize. Square board with inner crossed tracks. GR2. Watkins et al. 2020: 129.
Confidence 100
Social status Elite
Spaces Inside, Private
Source Watkins, T, C. Ebert, G. Saldaña, J. Can, and J. Awe. 2020. "Continued Investigation of Graffiti at Plaza A-III: The 2019 Excavations at Structure A13." In C. Ebert, J. Walden, J. Hoggarth and J. Awe (eds), The Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance Project: A Report of the 2019 Field Season. Flagstaff: Northern Arizona University, 125-136.
Id DLP.Evidence.1369
Type Artifact
Location 17° 5'16.83"N, 89° 8'30.41"W
Date 0700-01-01 - 0900-12-31
Rules Square board with inner crossed tracks.
Content Graffiti Type 2 Patolli game board found in the bench of Room 11 at Structure A13 at Xunantunich, Belize. Square board with inner crossed tracks. GR3. Watkins et al. 2020: 129.
Confidence 100
Social status Elite
Spaces Inside, Private
Source Watkins, T, C. Ebert, G. Saldaña, J. Can, and J. Awe. 2020. "Continued Investigation of Graffiti at Plaza A-III: The 2019 Excavations at Structure A13." In C. Ebert, J. Walden, J. Hoggarth and J. Awe (eds), The Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance Project: A Report of the 2019 Field Season. Flagstaff: Northern Arizona University, 125-136.
Id DLP.Evidence.1370
Type Artifact
Location 17° 5'16.83"N, 89° 8'30.41"W
Date 0700-01-01 - 0900-12-31
Rules Square board with inner crossed tracks.
Content Graffiti Type 2 Patolli game board found in the bench of Room 11 at Structure A13 at Xunantunich, Belize. Square board with inner crossed tracks. GR4. Watkins et al. 2020: 129.
Confidence 100
Social status Elite
Spaces Inside, Private
Source Watkins, T, C. Ebert, G. Saldaña, J. Can, and J. Awe. 2020. "Continued Investigation of Graffiti at Plaza A-III: The 2019 Excavations at Structure A13." In C. Ebert, J. Walden, J. Hoggarth and J. Awe (eds), The Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance Project: A Report of the 2019 Field Season. Flagstaff: Northern Arizona University, 125-136.
Id DLP.Evidence.1371
Type Artifact
Location 17° 5'16.83"N, 89° 8'30.41"W
Date 0700-01-01 - 0900-12-31
Rules Square board with inner crossed tracks.
Content Graffiti Type 2 Patolli game board found in the entrance of Room 12 at Structure A13 at Xunantunich, Belize. Square board with inner crossed tracks. GR3. Watkins et al. 2020: 130.
Confidence 100
Social status Elite
Spaces Inside, Private
Id DLP.Evidence.1372
Type Artifact
Location 17° 5'16.83"N, 89° 8'30.41"W
Date 0700-01-01 - 0900-12-31
Rules Square board with inner crossed tracks.
Content Graffiti Type 2 Patolli game board found in the bench of Room 12 at Structure A13 at Xunantunich, Belize. Square board with inner crossed tracks. GR1. Watkins et al. 2020: 130.
Confidence 100
Social status Elite
Spaces Inside, Private
Source Watkins, T, C. Ebert, G. Saldaña, J. Can, and J. Awe. 2020. "Continued Investigation of Graffiti at Plaza A-III: The 2019 Excavations at Structure A13." In C. Ebert, J. Walden, J. Hoggarth and J. Awe (eds), The Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance Project: A Report of the 2019 Field Season. Flagstaff: Northern Arizona University, 125-136.
Id DLP.Evidence.1373
Type Artifact
Location 17° 5'16.83"N, 89° 8'30.41"W
Date 0700-01-01 - 0900-12-31
Rules Square board with inner crossed tracks.
Content Graffiti Type 2 Patolli game board found in the bench of Room 13 at Structure A13 at Xunantunich, Belize. Square board with inner crossed tracks. GR4. Watkins et al. 2020: 132.
Confidence 100
Social status Elite
Spaces Inside, Private
Source Watkins, T, C. Ebert, G. Saldaña, J. Can, and J. Awe. 2020. "Continued Investigation of Graffiti at Plaza A-III: The 2019 Excavations at Structure A13." In C. Ebert, J. Walden, J. Hoggarth and J. Awe (eds), The Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance Project: A Report of the 2019 Field Season. Flagstaff: Northern Arizona University, 125-136.
Id DLP.Evidence.1374
Type Artifact
Location 17° 5'16.83"N, 89° 8'30.41"W
Date 0700-01-01 - 0900-12-31
Rules Square board with inner crossed tracks. Eleven spaces per side and track Central square is marked, as well as one of the squares where an inner tack intersects with the side.
Content Graffiti Type 2 Patolli game board found in Room 7 at Structure A13 at Xunantunich, Belize. Square board with inner crossed tracks. Eleven spaces per side and track Central square is marked with an "X," as well as one of the squares where an inner tack intersects with the side. Watkins et al. 2018: 338-339.
Confidence 100
Social status Elite
Spaces Inside, Private
Source Watkins, T, J. Awe, C. Helmke, R. Fitzmaurice. 2018. "Classic Maya Palaces and the Roles within the Greater Ceremonial Center: Results from the 2017 Field Season Xunantunich, Belize." In C. Ebert, J. Hoggarth and J. Awe (eds.) The Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance Project: A Report of the 2017 Field Season. Waco: Institute of Archaeology, 333-347.
Id DLP.Evidence.1375
Type Artifact
Location 17° 7'59.36"N, 89°15'41.82"W
Date 0600-01-01 - 0900-12-31
Rules Square board.
Content Graffiti Patolli game boards from Building B-18 at Naranjo, Guatemala. Six rectangular patolli boards in the central room of the building. Morales and Fialko 2010: 500; Walden and Voorhies 2017: 209.
Confidence 100
Spaces Private
Source Morales, P and V. Fialko. 2010. "Investigación arqueologica y consolidacion del edificio B-18 del sitio Naranjo: avances de la temporada 2009. In B. Arroyo, A. Linares and L. Paiz (eds), XIII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqeológicas en Guatemala, 2009. Guatemala: Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, 497-509., Walden, J. and B. Voorhies. 2017. "Ancient May Patolli." In B. Voorhies, (ed), Prehistoric Games of North American Indians. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 197-218/
Id DLP.Evidence.1376
Type Artifact
Location 16°32'59.43"N, 92°49'6.05"W
Date 1000-01-01 - 1200-12-31
Rules Square board with looped corners.
Content Fragment of a Type 1 Patolli board painted on a plaster floor at Ruiz, Chiapas, Mexico. Square board with looped corner, only one corner preserved. Three spaces in the loop, divisions of other squares difficult to see. Lowe 1959: 31, fig. 45b.
Confidence 100
Source Lowe, G. 1959. Archaeological Exploration of the Upper Grijalva River, Chiapas, Mexico. Orinda, CA: New World Archaeological Foundation.
Id DLP.Evidence.1377
Type Artifact
Location 20°40'59.80"N, 88°34'8.14"W
Date 0600-01-01 - 1000-12-31
Rules Circular board with perpendicular diameters. Eleven to twelve spaces in each radius and each arc between the radii. Spaces marked where diameters intersect the circumference and also in the central space.
Content Graffiti Type 3 Patolli game board from Chichén Itzá, Mexico. Circular board with perpendicular diameters. Eleven to twelve spaces in each radius and each arc between the radii. The spaces where the diameters intersect the circumference are circled, as is the central space. Ruppert 1943: Fig. 4.
Confidence 100
Spaces Public
Source Ruppert, K. 1943. The Mercado. Chichén Itzá, Yucatán. Washington: Carnegie Institution.
Id DLP.Evidence.1378
Type Artifact
Location 19°56'6.16"N,105°14'59.92"W
Date 1000-01-01 - 1500-12-31
Rules Square board with looped corners and looped and crossed central tracks. Eleven spaces per side and central track, three spaces in each corner loop.
Content Graffiti Type 1 Patolli board found on a stone at Tomatlán, Jalisco, Mexico. Square board with looped corners and looped and crossed central tracks. Eleven spaces per side and central track, three spaces in each corner loop. Dated to the Postclassic by Mountjoy and Smith. Mountjoy and Smith 1985; Depaulis 2018: 45-47.
Confidence 100
Spaces Outside
Source Depaulis, T. 2018. "Ancient American Board Games I: From Teotihuacan to the Great Plains." Board Game Studies 12: 29-55., Mountjoy, J. and J. Smith. 1985. "An Archaeological Patolli from Tomatlán, Jalisco, Mexico." In W. Folan (ed.), Contributions to the Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Greater Mesoamerica: Essays in Honor of Carroll L. Riley. CArbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 240-262.
Id DLP.Evidence.1379
Type Artifact
Location 19°37'25.91"N,101°34'24.94"W
Date 1450-01-01 - 1550-12-31
Rules Square board with looped corners and looped and crossed central tracks. Eleven spaces per side and central track, three spaces in each corner loop, an extra space outside the square where the inner tracks meet the square.
Content Graffiti Type 1 Patolli game board from Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, Mexico. Square board with looped corners and looped and crossed central tracks. Eleven spaces per side and central track, three spaces in each corner loop, with an extra space outside the square where the inner tracks meet the square. IH-9. Olmos Curiel 2010: 122.
Confidence 100
Spaces Outside
Source Olmos Curiel, A. G. 2010. Los petrograbdos de Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán: un sistema de comunicación gráfica. MA Thesis, El Colegio de Michoacán A.C.
Id DLP.Evidence.1380
Type Artifact
Location 19°37'25.91"N,101°34'24.94"W
Date 1450-01-01 - 1550-12-31
Rules Square board with looped corners and looped and crossed central tracks. Eleven spaces per side and central track, three spaces in each corner loop, an extra space outside the square where the inner tracks meet the square.
Content Graffiti Type 1 Patolli game board from Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, Mexico. Square board with looped corners and looped and crossed central tracks. Eleven spaces per side and central track, three spaces in each corner loop, with an extra space outside the square where the inner tracks meet the square. IIIA-10. Olmos Curiel 2010: 122.
Confidence 100
Spaces Outside
Source Olmos Curiel, A. G. 2010. Los petrograbdos de Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán: un sistema de comunicación gráfica. MA Thesis, El Colegio de Michoacán A.C.
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