Game

See the game 20 Squares for more details.

Period(s)

Ancient

Region(s)

Western Asia

Summary

Played on a board shaped to resemble a liver.

Description

This board type is thought to have come from the game's use in divination, as the liver was used in such rituals.

Rules

Twenty Squares board with the central long track bent to one side.

Concepts

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Reference

Future reconstruction.

Other Rulesets

Scholarly rulesets
Seleucid Proposed by Irving Finkel based on rules from Mesopotamia.

Incomplete rulesets
Simple 20 Squares Played on a board with no markings.
Marked 20 Squares Played on a board with certain marked squares.
Double 20 Squares Played on a doubled 20 Squares board.

Evidence Map

3 pieces of evidence in total. Browse all evidence for 20 Squares Liver Model here.

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Evidence category: All Artifact Art Text Ethnography

Evidence coloured based on: Age None

Map style: Streets OpenStreetMaps ArcGIS Topographique Voyager

Sources

Grant, E. 1934. Rumeileh III. Biblical and Kindred Studies 5: Haverford.

Meyer, J.-W. 1982. Lebermodell oder Spielbrett. In R. Wachmann (ed.) Bericht über die Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen in Kamid el-Loz in den Jahren 1971 bis 1974. Bonn: Rudolf Hagelt Verlag, 53–79.

van Buren, E.D. 1937. A gaming-board from Tall Halaf. Iraq 4(1): 11–15.

Identifiers

DLP.GameRulesets.13

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