TY - JOUR
T1 - An ancient Egyptian senet board in the Arizona State Museum
AU - Bald Romano, Irene
AU - Tait, William John
AU - Bisulca, Christina
AU - Creasman, Pearce Paul
AU - Hodgins, Gregory
AU - Wazny, Tomasz J
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements: The authors are grateful to the Arizona State Museum for permission to publish this senet board fragment and for their assistance, especially to Suzanne Eckert, Andrew Higgins, Mike Jacobs, Nancy Ode-gaard, and Jannelle Weakly. The authors are also grateful to the following for their support or assistance with the identification and understanding of the wood: Michael C. Wiemann and the U.S. Forest Service’s Forest Products Laboratory, Noreen Doyle, and the University of Arizona Egyptian Expedition. Wood testing noted in this manuscript was supported in part by a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Office of International Science & Engineering (award number 1427474). Special thanks to Katja Goebs at the University of Toronto for her assistance with locating a photograph of the Royal Ontatio Museum’s senet board and to Nicholas Reeves for his guidance and encouragement to publish this object.
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© 2018 by De Gruyter.
PY - 2018/6/1
Y1 - 2018/6/1
N2 - This article discusses a fragment of a rare, wooden slab-style Egyptian senet board that was given to the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) in 1922 by Lily S. Place, an American who lived in Cairo in the 1910s and 1920s and purchased ancient Egyptian objects from dealers and in the bazaars; it has no ancient provenience. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, the authors provide a reading and interpretation of the incised hieroglyphs, establish a radiocarbon date for the game board from 980 to 838 B.C.E., identify the wood as Abies (fir), probably Abies cilicica, demonstrate that the board was fashioned from freshly-cut wood, and identify the inlay substance as a green copper-wax pigment.
AB - This article discusses a fragment of a rare, wooden slab-style Egyptian senet board that was given to the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) in 1922 by Lily S. Place, an American who lived in Cairo in the 1910s and 1920s and purchased ancient Egyptian objects from dealers and in the bazaars; it has no ancient provenience. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, the authors provide a reading and interpretation of the incised hieroglyphs, establish a radiocarbon date for the game board from 980 to 838 B.C.E., identify the wood as Abies (fir), probably Abies cilicica, demonstrate that the board was fashioned from freshly-cut wood, and identify the inlay substance as a green copper-wax pigment.
KW - Abies (fir)
KW - Ancient Egyptian game boards
KW - Arizona State Museum
KW - Copper-wax pigment
KW - Radiocarbon dating
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U2 - 10.1515/zaes-2018-0005
DO - 10.1515/zaes-2018-0005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85048065662
VL - 145
SP - 71
EP - 85
JO - Zeitschrift fur Agyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde
JF - Zeitschrift fur Agyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde
SN - 0044-216X
IS - 1
ER -