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20 Squares
(É Er-bé-et-ta, Iseb, Aseb, Game of Twenty, Twenty Squares, Room Four)
Ruleset:
Marked 20 Squares
Game
See the game 20 Squares for more details.
Period(s)
Ancient
Region(s)
Northern Africa, Southern Asia, Western Asia
Summary
Played on a board with certain marked squares.
Rules
Twenty Squares board with spaces marked in spaces 4, 8, 12, 20, and/or 20
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.
20 Squares Liver Model
Played on a board shaped to resemble a liver.
Double 20 Squares
Played on a doubled 20 Squares board.
Evidence Map
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Sources
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Petrie, W.M.F. 1930. Beth Pelet I. London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt.
Pieper, M. 1909. Das Brettspiel der alten Ägypter. Berlin: Weidmännische Buchhandlung.
Pierret, P. 1878. Recueil d’inscriptions inédites du Musée égyptien du Louvre. Études égyptologues 8. Paris: F. Vieweg.
Quibbell, J. 1909. Excavations at Saqqara (1907–1908). Cairo: IFAO.
Refat, W. 1972. Le jeu de trente cases dans l’Égypte ancienne. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation. Université libre, Brussels, Belgium.
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Rothöhler, B. 1996. Ägyptischer Brettspiele außer Senet. Unpublished M.A. Thesis, Bayerischen Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.
Schiaparelli, E. 1927. Relazione sui lavori della missione archeologica Italiana in Egitto II. Turin.
Swiny, S. 1986. The Kent State University Expedition to Episkopi Phaneromeni. Nicosia: Paul Åströms Förlag.
Wiedemann, A. 1897. Das Brettspiel bei den Alten Ägyptern. In Actes du Dixième Congrès Internationale des Orientalistes, 1894. Leiden: Brill, 35–61.
Yadin, Y. 1960. Hazor II. Jerusalem: Magres Press.
Identifiers
DLP.GameRulesets.12
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