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Evidence for Mehen
32 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.152
Type Artistic depiction
Location 29°50'59.34"N, 31°13'0.04"E
Date 2592-01-01BCE - 2544-12-31BCE
Rules Up to 6 players, six marbles and one lion per player, single track spiral board.
Content Painting from tomb of Hesy-Re showing Mehen board and playing pieces.
Six crouching lion pieces and six sets of six round pieces alongside a spiral board.
Quibbell 1913: 18-21.
Confidence 100
Social status Elite
Genders Male
Source Quibbell, J. 1913. Excavations at Saqqara 1911–1912: The Mastaba of Hesy. Cairo: IFAO.
Id DLP.Evidence.153
Type Contemporary text
Location 29°23'7.55"N, 31° 9'30.75"E
Date 2543-01-01BCE - 2436-12-31BCE
Rules Name of the game.
Content Text from Tomb of Rahotep mentioning the name of the game Mehen in a list of tomb offerings.
Petrie 1892: pl XIII.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Social status Elite
Genders Male
Source Petrie, W.M.F. et al. 1892. Medum. London: D. Nutt.
Id DLP.Evidence.435
Type Artifact
Location 34°42'53.11" N, 32°51'33.26" E
Date 2500-01-01BCE - 1900-12-31BCE
Rules Spiral board.
Content Mehen game S1011 from Sotira Kaminoudhia, Cyprus. Sotira Kaminoudhia found among field stones removed from Unit 12. 23 depressions form a spiral surrounding a larger deeper depression in the center. Now in the Kourion Museum, Episkopi, Cyprus. Crist 2016a.
Confidence 100
Source Crist, W. 2016a. Gaming stones morphological data. Harvard Dataverse.
Id DLP.Evidence.436
Type Artifact
Location 35° 1'24.69"N, 33°19'29.15"E
Date 1899-01-01BCE - 1800-12-31BCE
Rules Spiral board.
Content Mehen game from Marki Alonia, Cyprus, S416 Three curving rows of depressions preserved. Now in the Larnaca District Archaeological Museum. Frankel and Webb 2006.
Confidence 100
Source Frankel, D. And J. Webb. 2006. Marki Alonia. An Early and Middle Bronze Age Settlement in Cyprus. Excavations 1995–2000. Sävedalen: Paul Åströms Förlag.
Id DLP.Evidence.437
Type Artifact
Location 34°42'53.11" N, 32°51'33.26" E
Date 2500-01-01BCE - 1900-12-31BCE
Rules Spiral board.
Content Mehen game board from Sotira Kaminoudhia, Cyprus, S425 37 depressions in spiral pattern. Now in the Kourion Museum, Episkopi, Cyprus. Swiny et al 2003: 274; Crist 2016a.
Confidence 100
Source Swiny, S, G. Rapp and E. Herscher. 2003. Sotira Kaminoudhia: An Early Bronze Age Site in Cyprus. American Schools of Oriental Research Reports, Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute Monographs 4. Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research.
Id DLP.Evidence.438
Type Artifact
Location 35° 1'24.69"N, 33°19'29.15"E
Date 1899-01-01BCE - 1800-12-31BCE
Rules Spiral board.
Content Mehen game from Marki Alonia, Cyprus, S211. 22 depressions in a clear spiral pattern. Now in the Larnaca District Archaeological Museum. Frankel and Webb 1996; Frankel and Webb 2006; Crist 2016a.
Confidence 100
Source Frankel, D. And J. Webb. 2006. Marki Alonia. An Early and Middle Bronze Age Settlement in Cyprus. Excavations 1995–2000. Sävedalen: Paul Åströms Förlag.
, Frankel, D. And J. Webb. 1996. Marki-Alonia: An Early and Middle Bronze Age Town in Cyprus. Excavations 1990–1994. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 123:1. Jonsered: Paul Åströms Förlag.
, Crist, W. 2016a. Gaming stones morphological data. Harvard Dataverse.
Id DLP.Evidence.439
Type Artifact
Location 35° 1'24.69"N, 33°19'29.15"E
Date 1899-01-01BCE - 1800-12-31BCE
Rules Spiral board.
Content Mehen game board from Marki Alonia, Cyprus, S160. Fifteen depressions as part of spiral. Mislabeled in museum as S760. Now in the Larnaca District Archaeological Museum. Frankel & Webb 1996: 87, 99; Crist 2016a.
Confidence 100
Source Frankel, D. And J. Webb. 1996. Marki-Alonia: An Early and Middle Bronze Age Town in Cyprus. Excavations 1990–1994. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 123:1. Jonsered: Paul Åströms Förlag.
, Crist, W. 2016a. Gaming stones morphological data. Harvard Dataverse.
Id DLP.Evidence.440
Type Artifact
Location 34°40'11.32"N, 32°54'23.06"E
Date 1720-01-01BCE - 1475-12-31BCE
Rules Spiral board.
Content Mehen game from Episkopi Phaneromeni, Cyprus. S244b. Ovoid spiral containing 51 depressions. Now in the Kourion Museum, Episkopi, Cyprus. Swiny 1986: 123; Crist 2016a.
Confidence 100
Source Swiny, S. 1986. The Kent State University Expedition to Episkopi Phaneromeni. Nicosia: Paul Åströms Förlag.
, Crist, W. 2016a. Gaming stones morphological data. Harvard Dataverse.
Id DLP.Evidence.441
Type Artifact
Location 35° 1'24.69"N, 33°19'29.15"E
Date 2000-01-01BCE - 1900-12-31BCE
Rules Spiral board.
Content Mehen game from Marki Alonia, Cyprus, S220. Set in floor surface 907. 45 depressions in a clockwise spiral. Now in the Larnaca District Archaeological Museum. Frankel & Webb 2006; Crist 2016a.
Confidence 100
Source Frankel, D. And J. Webb. 2006. Marki Alonia. An Early and Middle Bronze Age Settlement in Cyprus. Excavations 1995–2000. Sävedalen: Paul Åströms Förlag.
, Crist, W. 2016a. Gaming stones morphological data. Harvard Dataverse.
Id DLP.Evidence.442
Type Artifact
Location 35° 1'24.69"N, 33°19'29.15"E
Date 2000-01-01BCE - 1900-12-31BCE
Rules Spiral board.
Content Mehen game from Marki Alonia, Cyrpus. 26 depressions in a partial spiral. Now in the Larnaca District Archaeological Museum. Frankel & Webb 2006; Crist 2016a.
Confidence 100
Source Frankel, D. And J. Webb. 2006. Marki Alonia. An Early and Middle Bronze Age Settlement in Cyprus. Excavations 1995–2000. Sävedalen: Paul Åströms Förlag.
, Crist, W. 2016a. Gaming stones morphological data. Harvard Dataverse.
Id DLP.Evidence.443
Type Artifact
Location 35° 1'24.69"N, 33°19'29.15"E
Date 2000-01-01BCE - 1800-12-31BCE
Rules Spiral board.
Content Mehen game board from Marki Alonia, Cyprus. S13 24 depressions arranged in spiral. Now in the Larnaca District Archaeological Museum. Frankel & Webb 1996: 87, 90; Frankel and Webb 2006; Crist 2016a.
Confidence 100
Source Frankel, D. And J. Webb. 2006. Marki Alonia. An Early and Middle Bronze Age Settlement in Cyprus. Excavations 1995–2000. Sävedalen: Paul Åströms Förlag.
, Frankel, D. And J. Webb. 1996. Marki-Alonia: An Early and Middle Bronze Age Town in Cyprus. Excavations 1990–1994. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 123:1. Jonsered: Paul Åströms Förlag.
, Crist, W. 2016a. Gaming stones morphological data. Harvard Dataverse.
Id DLP.Evidence.444
Type Artifact
Location 34°40'11.32"N, 32°54'23.06"E
Date 1720-01-01BCE - 1475-12-31BCE
Rules Spiral board.
Content Mehen game board from Episkopi Phaneromeni, Cyprus. S280. At least 17 shallow depressions, including a larger central one forming a spiral. Now in the Kourion Museum, Episkopi, Cyprus. Swiny 1986: 124; Crist 2016a.
Confidence 100
Source Swiny, S. 1986. The Kent State University Expedition to Episkopi Phaneromeni. Nicosia: Paul Åströms Förlag.
, Crist, W. 2016a. Gaming stones morphological data. Harvard Dataverse.
Id DLP.Evidence.445
Type Artifact
Location 35° 1'24.69"N, 33°19'29.15"E
Date 1899-01-01BCE - 1800-12-31BCE
Rules Spiral board.
Content Mehen game board from Marki Alonia, Cyprus. S150. Spiral with regular concentric circles of depressions. outer band consists of 5 elongated depressions. Now in the Larnaca District Archaeological Museum. Frankel & Webb 1996: 87, 98; Crist 2016a.
Confidence 100
Source Frankel, D. And J. Webb. 1996. Marki-Alonia: An Early and Middle Bronze Age Town in Cyprus. Excavations 1990–1994. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 123:1. Jonsered: Paul Åströms Förlag.
, Crist, W. 2016a. Gaming stones morphological data. Harvard Dataverse.
Id DLP.Evidence.446
Type Artifact
Location 34°40'11.32"N, 32°54'23.06"E
Date 1899-01-01BCE - 1650-12-31BCE
Rules Spiral board.
Content Mehen game board from Episkopi Phaneromeni, Cyprus. S84. 40 shallow depressions forming a clockwise spiral The first two are circular and more pronounced, as is the central depression. Now in the Kourion Museum, Episkopi, Cyprus. Swiny 1986: 119;
Crist 2016a.
Confidence 100
Source Swiny, S. 1986. The Kent State University Expedition to Episkopi Phaneromeni. Nicosia: Paul Åströms Förlag.
, Crist, W. 2016a. Gaming stones morphological data. Harvard Dataverse.
Id DLP.Evidence.447
Type Artifact
Location 35° 0'34.47"N, 33°41'45.17"E
Date 1325-01-01BCE - 1225-12-31BCE
Rules Spiral board.
Content Mehen game board from Pyla Kokkinokremos. S41. Circular depressions on one face forming a spiral. Now in the Larnaca District Archaeological Museum. Karageorghis & Demas 1984: 14, 36, Pl XXXII, XLVIII; Crist 2016a.
Confidence 100
Source Karageorghis, V. And M. Demas. 1984. Pyla-Kokkinokremos: A Late 13th Century B.C. Fortified Settlement in Cyprus. Nicosia: Department of Antiquities.
, Crist, W. 2016a. Gaming stones morphological data. Harvard Dataverse.
Id DLP.Evidence.448
Type Artifact
Location 34°42'53.11" N, 32°51'33.26" E
Date 2500-01-01BCE - 1900-12-31BCE
Rules Spiral board.
Content Mehen board from Sotira Kaminoudhia, Cyprus. S942 42 depressions in a spiral pattern. Now in the Kourion Museum, Episkopi, Cyprus. Crist 2016a.
Confidence 100
Source Crist, W. 2016a. Gaming stones morphological data. Harvard Dataverse.
Id DLP.Evidence.850
Type Artifact
Location 26°11'0.40"N, 31°55'21.50"E
Date 2740-01-01BCE - 2740-12-31BCE
Rules Spiral board.
Content Mehen board form the Tomb of Pharaoh Peribsen at Abydos. Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels E. 4180. Board has four parallel spiral tracks. Kendall 2007: 35; Amélineau 1899: pl. 47.11.
Confidence 100
Social status Royalty
Genders Male
Source Amélineau, E. 1905. Les nouvelles fouilles d'Abydos 1895–96. Paris: Ernest Leroux., Kendall, T. 2007. 'Mehen.' In I. Finkel (ed), Ancient Board Games in Perspective. London: British Museum Press, p. 33–45.
Id DLP.Evidence.851
Type Artifact
Location 26°11'0.40"N, 31°55'21.50"E
Date 2740-01-01BCE - 2740-12-31BCE
Rules Spiral board.
Content Mehen board from the Tomb of Peribsen now in the Musée Royal de Mariemont, Belgium B.102.0. Kendall 2007:35–36; Amélineau 1905: pl. 47.10.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Social status Royalty
Genders Male
Id DLP.Evidence.852
Type Artifact
Location 26°11'0.40"N, 31°55'21.50"E
Date 2740-01-01BCE - 2740-12-31BCE
Rules Spiral board.
Content Mehen board form the Tomb of Pharaoh Peribsen at Abydos. Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels E. 4180. Board has four parallel spiral tracks. Kendall 2007: 35; Amélineau 1905: pl. 47.11.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Social status Royalty
Genders Male
Source Petrie, W. and J. Quibell. 1896. Naqada and Ballas. London: Bernard Quaritch.
Id DLP.Evidence.853
Type Artifact
Location 26°11'0.40"N, 31°55'21.50"E
Date 2740-01-01BCE - 2740-12-31BCE
Rules Spiral board.
Content Mehen board with spaces arranged in seven concentric circles; spaces were likely marked to indicated where to move from one circle to the next. Now in the Louvre E.29891. Amélineau 1905: pl. 47.8; Kendall 2007: 35.
Confidence 100
Source Amélineau, E. 1905. Les nouvelles fouilles d'Abydos 1895–96. Paris: Ernest Leroux., Kendall, T. 2007. 'Mehen.' In I. Finkel (ed), Ancient Board Games in Perspective. London: British Museum Press, p. 33–45.
Id DLP.Evidence.854
Type Artifact
Location 25°57'1.47"N, 32°44'23.42"E
Date 3100-01-01BCE - 3000-12-31BCE
Rules Spiral board.
Content Small mehen board found in Tomb 19 at Ballas. Late 4th millennium BCE. Now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Petrie and Quibell 1896: 42, pl. XLIII.2.
Confidence 100
Source Kendall, T. 2007. 'Mehen.' In I. Finkel (ed), Ancient Board Games in Perspective. London: British Museum Press, p. 33–45., Petrie, W. and J. Quibell. 1896. Naqada and Ballas. London: Bernard Quaritch.
Id DLP.Evidence.855
Type Artifact
Location 31°15'11.27"N, 35°32'14.94"E
Date 2500-01-01BCE - 2350-12-31BCE
Rules Spiral board.
Content Mehen game board from Bâb edh-Dhrâ', Jordan. GSREG253. Spiral game board found in the destruction layer of Stratum II town. Rast and Schaub 2003: 637.
Confidence 100
Source Rast, W. and T. Shaub. 2003. Bâb edh-Dhrâ': Excavations at the Town Site (1975–1981). Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.
Id DLP.Evidence.856
Type Artifact
Location 34°48'44.94"N, 32°24'23.05"E
Date 2700-01-01BCE - 2500-12-31BCE
Rules Spiral board.
Content Half of a mehen game board from Lemba Lakkous, Cyprus. A spiral pattern on a limestone block. Swiny 1982.
Confidence 100
Source Swiny, S. 1982. 'A Spiral Game (Mehen) from Lemba Area II? In E. Peltenburg, "Lemba Archaeological Project, Cyprus 1980: preliminary Report." Levant 14: 53–54.
Id DLP.Evidence.857
Type Artifact
Location Ancient Egypt
Date 3100-01-01BCE - 2181-12-31BCE
Rules Spiral board.
Content Unprovenienced mehen board now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo JE 27354. Ranke 1920: 7; Petrie and Quibell 1896: 42; Kendall 2007: 36.
Confidence 100
Source Kendall, T. 2007. 'Mehen.' In I. Finkel (ed), Ancient Board Games in Perspective. London: British Museum Press, p. 33–45., Petrie, W. and J. Quibell. 1896. Naqada and Ballas. London: Bernard Quaritch. , Ranke, H. 1920. Das altägyptische Schlangenspiel. Heidelberg: Carl Winters Universitätsbuchhandlung.
Id DLP.Evidence.858
Type Artifact
Location 26°11'0.40"N, 31°55'21.50"E
Date 3100-01-01BCE - 2181-01-01BCE
Rules Spiral board.
Content Unprovenienced mehen game board reportedly found at Abydos. Now in the Bode Museum, Berlin 13686. Scharff 1926: 145, pl.33; Kendall 2007: 36.
Confidence 100
Source Kendall, T. 2007. 'Mehen.' In I. Finkel (ed), Ancient Board Games in Perspective. London: British Museum Press, p. 33–45., Scharff, A. 1926. Die archäologischen Ergebnisse des Vorgeschichtlichen Graberfeldes von Abusir el-Meleq. Leipzig: Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichung der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft.
Id DLP.Evidence.859
Type Artifact
Location Ancient Egypt
Date 3100-01-01BCE - 2181-12-31BCE
Rules Spiral board.
Content Unprovenienced mehen game board from Egypt. Petrie claims it is of prehistoric date. Now in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology 19602. Petrie 1914: 25, pl. 47; Kendall 2007: 36.
Confidence 100
Source Kendall, T. 2007. 'Mehen.' In I. Finkel (ed), Ancient Board Games in Perspective. London: British Museum Press, p. 33–45., Petrie, W. 1914. Amulets. London: Constable and Co. Ltd.
Id DLP.Evidence.860
Type Artifact
Location Ancient Egypt
Date 3100-01-01BCE - 2181-12-31BCE
Rules Spiral board.
Content Unprovenienced mehen board from Egypt. now in the Oriental Institute Museum, Chicago. 16950. Piccione 1990a: 46-7.
Confidence 100
Source Kendall, T. 2007. 'Mehen.' In I. Finkel (ed), Ancient Board Games in Perspective. London: British Museum Press, p. 33–45., Piccione, P. 1990a. 'Mehen, Mysteries, and Resurrection rom the Coiled Serpent. ' Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 27: 43–52.
Id DLP.Evidence.861
Type Artifact
Location Ancient Egypt
Date 3100-01-01BCE - 2181-12-31BCE
Rules Spiral board.
Content Unprovenienced mehen board from Egypt. In the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. (e.g.A. 4464.1943). Kendall 2007: fig. 4.15.
Confidence 100
Source Kendall, T. 2007. 'Mehen.' In I. Finkel (ed), Ancient Board Games in Perspective. London: British Museum Press, p. 33–45.
Id DLP.Evidence.862
Type Artistic depiction
Location 29°50'59.34"N, 31°13'0.04"E
Date 2450-01-01BCE - 2350-12-31BCE
Rules Spiral board, spheres as playing pieces, four players.
Content Tomb relief from Tomb of Rashepses, showing four people playing mehen. Caption reads: "Playing mehen." Shown among a scene of music, senet playing, and offerings to the deceased. Lepsius 1849-1856: Bl. 61; Kendall 2007: 39.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Social status Nobility
Genders Male
Source Kendall, T. 2007. 'Mehen.' In I. Finkel (ed), Ancient Board Games in Perspective. London: British Museum Press, p. 33–45., Lepsius, R. 1846-1856. Denkmäler aus Ägypten und Äthiopien. Abtheilung II. Berlin: Nicolaische Buchhandlung.
Id DLP.Evidence.863
Type Artistic depiction
Location 29°58'44.83"N, 31° 7'51.69"E
Date 2332-01-01BCE - 2287-12-31BCE
Rules Two players.
Content Tomb relief from the Tomb of Idu at Giza. Two men play mehen amid a scene of senet playing, music, and dancing in honor of the goddess Hathor. Caption reads: "I am playing mehen against you." Kendall 2007: 40; Simpson 1976: 25.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Social status Nobility
Genders Male
Source Kendall, T. 2007. 'Mehen.' In I. Finkel (ed), Ancient Board Games in Perspective. London: British Museum Press, p. 33–45., Simpson, W.K. 1976. Giza Mastabas 2: The Mastabas of Qar and Idu. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts.
Id DLP.Evidence.864
Type Artistic depiction
Location 29°58'44.83"N, 31° 7'51.69"E
Date 2450-01-01BCE - 2350-12-31BCE
Rules Spiral board, two players.
Content Tomb relief from the tomb of Kaiemankh at Giza showing two men playing mehen in a scene of people playing senet, music, and dancing. Captions reads: "Seizing mehen" while the opponent responds "I take aim at you and play toward you." Kendall 2007: 40; Junker 1940: Fig. 9.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Social status Nobility
Genders Male
Source Junker, H. 1940. Giza IV: Die Mastaba des Kai-em-ankh. Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky A.G.
, Kendall, T. 2007. 'Mehen.' In I. Finkel (ed), Ancient Board Games in Perspective. London: British Museum Press, p. 33–45.
Id DLP.Evidence.1541
Type Artifact
Location 22°14'1.56"N, 31°36'53.11"E
Date 3300-01-01BCE - 3100-12-31BCE
Rules Four players, at least four pieces per player, two kinds of pieces.
Content Incomplete set of Mehen pieces from Tomb L-24 at the Nubian A-Group Cemetery at Qustul. One hippopotamus piece, eight faience balls, two carnelian, one amethyst, and two dark stone. Found along with equipment for the game Mn. WIlliams 1986: 130-131.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Social status Elite, Nobility
Genders Male
Source Williams, B. 1986. The University of Chicago Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition Volume III: Excavations betweeen Abu Simbel and the Sudan Frontier. The A-Group Royal Cemetery at Qustul: Cemetery L. Chicago: Oriental Institute.
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