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Evidence for Late New Kingdom Senet
7 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.50
Type Artifact
Game Senet
Location Ancient Egypt
Date 1292-01-01BCE - 1191-01-01BCE
Rules 3x10 board, markings in squares 26-30.
Content Senet game board in British Museum.
BM 102369. Unknown provenience.
Piccione 1990: 427;
Needler 1953: 74;
Pusch 1979: 309-310.
Confidence 100
Source Needler, W. 1953. A thirty-square draught board in the Royal Ontario Museum. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 39: 60–75.
, Piccione, P. 1990. The Historical Development of the Game of Senet and its significance for Egyptian Religion. Unpublished Phd Thesis, University of Chicago.
, Pusch, E. 1979. Das Senet-Brettspiel im Alten Ägypten. Munich: Deutsche Kunstverlag.
Id DLP.Evidence.51
Type Artifact
Game Senet
Location Ancient Egypt
Date 1292-01-01BCE - 1077-01-01BCE
Rules 3x10 board, markings in squares 26-30.
Content Senet game board of Nesyamenemopet, likely from the burial of the priest of the same name at Deir el-Bahari.
Walters Art Museum.
WAG 48.408.
de Meulenaere 1981: 90;
Piccione 1990: 427-428;
MacGregor 1922: 36;
Pusch 1979: 322-323.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Social status Elite
Genders Male
Source de Meulenaere, H. 'Review of Das Senet-Brettspiel im alten Ägypten.' Chronique d'Égypte 56: 89-90., MacGregor, W. 1922. Catalogue of the MacGregor Collection of Egyptian Antiquities. Sotheby Sale Catalog 1922. London: Dryden Press., Piccione, P. 1990. The Historical Development of the Game of Senet and its significance for Egyptian Religion. Unpublished Phd Thesis, University of Chicago.
, Pusch, E. 1979. Das Senet-Brettspiel im Alten Ägypten. Munich: Deutsche Kunstverlag.
Id DLP.Evidence.52
Type Artifact
Game Senet
Location Ancient Egypt
Date 1190-01-01BCE - 0525-01-01BCE
Rules 3x10 board, markings in squares 26-30.
Content Senet game board in Yale University
New Haven Art Gallery. Unknown provenience.
Piccione 1990: 429;
Pusch 1979: 311-312;
Schott 1986: 108-109.
Confidence 100
Source Schott, G. 1986. Ancient Egyptian Art at Yale. New Haven: Yale University Arts Gallery.
, Piccione, P. 1990. The Historical Development of the Game of Senet and its significance for Egyptian Religion. Unpublished Phd Thesis, University of Chicago.
, Pusch, E. 1979. Das Senet-Brettspiel im Alten Ägypten. Munich: Deutsche Kunstverlag.
Id DLP.Evidence.55
Type Artifact
Game Senet
Location 25°43'51.67"N, 32°35'49.20"E
Date 1190-01-01BCE - 0730-01-01BCE
Rules 3x10 board, markings in squares 5, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30.
Content Senet game board in British Museum BM38429, found in the Tomb of Kenamun TT93.
The board is incomplete but all squares appear to be marked:
5: Ma'at,
10: Wadjet,
11: Mut,
12: Orion,
13: Life,
16: Net,
20: bread,
21: B3,
30: netjer.
Piccione 1990: 431-432;
Mond 1904: 93;
Pusch 1979: 324-327;
Needler 1953: 69, 74.
Confidence 100
Source Piccione, P. 1990. The Historical Development of the Game of Senet and its significance for Egyptian Religion. Unpublished Phd Thesis, University of Chicago.
, Pusch, E. 1979. Das Senet-Brettspiel im Alten Ägypten. Munich: Deutsche Kunstverlag.
, Mond, R. 1904. Report of the work done in the Gebel ash-sheikh Abd-el-Kurneh at Thebes. Annales du Service des antiquités de l’Égypte 5: 97–104.
, Needler, W. 1953. A thirty-square draught board in the Royal Ontario Museum. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 39: 60–75.
Id DLP.Evidence.56
Type Artifact
Game Senet
Location 25°43'40.96"N, 32°36'5.13"E
Date 1190-01-01BCE - 1077-01-01BCE
Rules 3x10 board, markings in squares 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 27, 28, 29, 30.
Content Senet game board on Turin Papyrus
Turin Museum 1.775.
Some other squares also contain markings:
7: The Thirty,
8: sd.t-sn(?),
9: dd-ti.t,
10: Wadjet,
11: Mut,
12: Orion,
13: Life,
14: Aten.
Piccione 1990: 432;
Seyffarth 1833: plate 3;
Pusch 1979: 328-323;
Wiedemann 1894: 41-43.
Confidence 100
Source Piccione, P. 1990. The Historical Development of the Game of Senet and its significance for Egyptian Religion. Unpublished Phd Thesis, University of Chicago.
, Pusch, E. 1979. Das Senet-Brettspiel im Alten Ägypten. Munich: Deutsche Kunstverlag.
, Seyffarth, G. 1833. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Literatur, Kunst,
Mythologie und Geschichte des Alten Ägypten. Volume III. Laipzig: J.A. Barth.
, Wiedemann, A. 1897. Das Brettspiel bei den Alten Ägyptern. In Actes du Dixième Congrès Internationale des Orientalistes, 1894. Leiden: Brill, 35–61.
Id DLP.Evidence.58
Type Artifact
Game Senet
Location Ancient Egypt
Date 1190-01-01BCE - 1077-01-01BCE
Rules Board with 3 rows, markings in squares 26-30.
Content Senet game board in the Egyptian Museum Cairo.
CGC 88.007. (DLP.Evidence.59 on opposite face). Unknown provenience.
Piccione 1990: 434;
Pusch 1979: 344-346.
Confidence 100
Source Piccione, P. 1990. The Historical Development of the Game of Senet and its significance for Egyptian Religion. Unpublished Phd Thesis, University of Chicago.
, Pusch, E. 1979. Das Senet-Brettspiel im Alten Ägypten. Munich: Deutsche Kunstverlag.
Id DLP.Evidence.63
Type Artifact
Game Senet
Location 25°42'59.61"N, 32°39'20.65"E
Date 1190-01-01BCE - 0525-01-01BCE
Rules 3x10 board, markings in squares 6, 26-30.
Content Senet graffiti game board on Khonsu Temple roof.
Piccione 1990: 438;
Push 1979: 438;
Jacquet-Gordon 2003: 30-31.
Confidence 100
Spaces Outside
Source Jacquet-Gordon, H. 2003. The Graffiti on the Khonsu Temple Roof at Karnak: A Manifestation of Personal Piety. Oriental Institute Publications 123. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
, Piccione, P. 1990. The Historical Development of the Game of Senet and its significance for Egyptian Religion. Unpublished Phd Thesis, University of Chicago.
, Pusch, E. 1979. Das Senet-Brettspiel im Alten Ägypten. Munich: Deutsche Kunstverlag.
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