Game

See the game 20 Squares for more details.

Period(s)

Ancient

Region(s)

Northern Africa, Western Asia

Summary

Played on a doubled 20 Squares board.

Rules

Two twenty squares boards connected via the long central track forming a dumbbell shape with 31 playing spaces. Spaces marked at squares 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 on each board.

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.
20 Squares Liver Model Played on a board shaped to resemble a liver.

Evidence Map

3 pieces of evidence in total. Browse all evidence for Double 20 Squares 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

Banks, E.J. 1912. Bismaya, or the Lost City of Adab. New York and London.

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.

Refat, W. 1972. Le jeu de trente cases dans l’Égypte ancienne. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation. Université libre, Brussels, Belgium.

Identifiers

DLP.GameRulesets.14

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