Ancient board games in perspective : papers from the 1990 British Museum colloquium, with additional contributions /
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Call Number: GV1312 .A53 2007
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Notes on the contributors
- Board games in perspective: an introduction /
- Irving L. Finkel
- Homo ludens : the earliest board games in the Near East /
- St John Simpson
- The royal game of Ur /
- Andrea Becker
- On the rules for the royal game of Ur /
- Irving L. Finekl
- Mehen : the ancient Egyptian game of the serpent /
- Timothy Kendall
- Were there gamesters in pharaonic Egypt? /
- W.J. Tait
- The Egyptian game of senet and the migration of the soul /
- Peter A. Piccione
- The game of hounds and jackals /
- A.J. Hoerth
- The Egyptian 'game of twenty squares' : is it related to 'marbles' and the game of the snake? /
- Edgar B. Pusch
- Board games and their symbols from Roman times to early Christianity /
- Anita Rieche
- Inscribed imperial Roman gaming-boards /
- Nicholas Purcell
- Notes on pavement games of Greece and Rome /
- R.C. Bell
- Late Roman and Byzantine game boards at Aphrodisias /
- Charlotte Roueché
- Graeco-Roman pavement signs and game boards : a British Museum working typology /
- R.C. Bell and C.M. Roueché
- Game boards at Vijayanagara : a preliminary report /
- John M. Fritz and David Gibson
- Horse coins : pieces for da ma, the Chinese board-game 'driving the horses' /
- Joe Cribb
- An introduction to board games in late imperial China /
- Andrew Lo
- Go in China /
- John Fairbairn
- The beginnings of chess /
- Michael Mark
- Grandmasters of shatranj and the dating of chess /
- R.D. Keene
- Changing cultures : the reception of chess into western Europe in the Middle Ages /
- Richard Eales
- Board games in central Asia and Iran /
- Grigori L. Semenov
- Board games and backgammon in ancient Indian sculpture /
- Micaela Soar
- Notes on the early history of the backgammon family in China /
- Andrew Lo
- A late eleventh-century tabulae set from Gloucester /
- I.J. Stewart
- A brief history of backgammon and the design of the board /
- Malcolm J. Watkins
- An overview of mancala rules and variations /
- L. Russ
- The typological spread of the game of mancala /
- Philip Townshend
- Mancala game boards as African emblems of status /
- R.A. Walker
- The pursuit of hnefatafl /
- Ian Riddler
- Rithmomachia, the philosophers' game : an introduction to its history and rules /
- Jurgen Stigter
- Robert Stewart Culin and New World games /
- Bonita Freeman-Witthoft
- Index.