List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Egyptian Chronology 1. Ancient Egyptians at Play: An Introduction 2. Mehen and men: The First Signs of Egyptian Board Games 3. Senet across Borders 4. The Game of Twenty: A Foreign Acquisition 5. The Game of Hounds and Jackals: From Thebes to Susa 6. Roman Board Games Crossing the Borders of Egypt 7. Arab and Ottoman Invaders Scratching the Surface 8. The Role of Board Games in Understanding the Ancient World Index
The first book to bring together research into ancient Egyptian board games, which is flourishing thanks to a growing interest in how these games show Egypt's interaction with her neighbours.
Walter Crist is a leading expert on Cypriot board games and a PhD candidate in archaeology at Arizona State University. Anne-Elizabeth Dunn-Vaturi is a Research Associate in the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and is pursuing PhD research at Leiden University, the Netherlands, on the game of Hounds and Jackals. Alex de Voogt is an Assistant Curator at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and a leading researcher of board games in Africa and the Middle East.
Richly illustrated with photographs and line drawings, this volume
is a welcome compendium in the field of board game studies, and
indeed is a great encouragement to crack open a board game and get
playing! * Ancient Egypt *
In his very specialized book, Crist (Arizona State Univ.) achieves
his purpose-to synthesize material evidence found in Egypt about
board games and their uses from the predynastic through Islamic
eras. He presents this information to facilitate identifying
excavated board games and understanding their crossing of cultural
borders. ... Of interest to graduate students and scholars who are
Egyptologists, archaeologists, and social anthropologists. Summing
Up: Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, professionals. *
CHOICE *
Egyptologists and scholars from other disciplines who wish to study
board games in the ancient world will find this study to be a very
useful research tool that provides a thorough description of the
available material evidence, summaries of previous work on the
topic, and astute suggestions of broader trends and questions. *
Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections *
An impressive summation of the widely dispersed evidence on Ancient
Egyptian board games, including much additional material from
graffiti boards and especially from outside Egypt. Board games are
shown to represent a major token of ongoing cross-cultural
interaction between Egypt and its neighbours in Pharaonic and
post-Pharaonic times. The book adds a whole new chapter to the
study of such interactions more broadly. * Andreas Stauder,
Directeur d'etudes "egyptien", Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes,
Paris. *
This innovative study of Egyptian games provides the most
comprehensive overview to date, providing an essential guide for
archaeologists wanting to identify games in the field and those
interested more generally in ancient Egyptian play. The authors'
concern for gaming's temporal, geographic and social contexts adds
an important dimension to their study, making it an important
source for those interested in gaming at all times and places. *
Stuart Tyson Smith, Professor of Anthropology, University of
California, Santa Barbara, USA *
Meticulously researched ... Crist, Dunn-Vaturi, and de Voogt have
produced an appealing overview of board games in ancient Egypt ...
This volume compiles all relevant scholarship into a digestible
size and makes new arguments for cultural exchange between Egypt
and its neighbors. This book will be an invaluable tool for anyone
seeking to identify board games in the field and a helpful resource
for anyone interested in ancient board games, ancient Egypt, or
cultural exchange. * Classical Journal *
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