Preface Notes on the Contributors Board Games in Perspective: An Introduction 1 Irving L. Finkel 1 Homo Ludens: The Earliest Board Games in the Near East 5 Stjohn Simpson 2 The Royal Game of Ur 11 Andrea Becker 3 On the Rules for the Royal Game of Ur 16 Irving L Finkel 4 Mehen: The Ancient Egyptian Game of the Serpent 33 Timothy Kendall 5 Were There Gamesters in Pharaonic Egypt? 46 W.J.Tait 6 The Egyptian Game of Senet and the Migration of the Soul 54 Peter A. Piccione 7 The Game of Hounds and Jackals 64 A.J.Hoerth 8 The Egyptian 'Game of Twenty Squares': Is It Related to 'Marbles' and the Game of the Snake? 69 Edgar B. Pusch 9 Board Games and their Symbols from Roman Times to Early Christianity 87 Anita Rieche 10 Inscribed Imperial Roman Gaming-Boards 90 Nicholas Purcell 11 Notes on Pavement Games of Greece and Rome 98 R. C. Bell 12 Late Roman and Byzantine Game Boards at Aphrodisias 100 Charlotte Roueche 13 Graeco-Roman Pavement Signs and Game Boards: A British Museum Working Typology 106 R. C. Belt and C. M. Roueche 14 Game Boards at Vijayanagara: A Preliminary Report 110 John M. Fritz and David Cibson Ancient Board Games in Perspective | iii 15 Horse Coins: Pieces for Da Ma, the Chinese Board-Game 'Driving the Horses' 116 Joe Crihb 16 An Introduction to Board Games in Late Imperial China 125 Andrew Lo 17 Co in China 133 John Fairbaim 18 The Beginnings of Chess 138 Michael Mark 19 Grandmasters of Shatranj and the Dating of Chess 158 R. D. Keene With an addendum by Richard Eales 20 Changing Cultures: The Reception of Chess into Western Europe in the Middle Ages 162 Richard Eales 21 Board Games in Central Asia and Iran 169 Crigori L. Semenov 22 Board Games and Backgammon in Ancient Indian Sculpture 177 Micaela Soar 23 Notes on the Early History of the Backgammon Family in China 232 Andrew Lo 24 A Late Eleventh-Century Tabulae Set from Gloucester 235 I.J. Stewart 25 A Brief History of Backgammon and the Design of the Board 238 Malcolm J. Wat kins 26 An Overview of Mancala Rules and Variations 242 L. Russ 27 The Typological Spread of the Game of Mancala 245 Philip Townshend 28 Mancala Game Boards as African Emblems of Status 250 R. A. Walker 29 The Pursuit of Hnefatafl 256 Ian Riddler 30 Rithmomachia, the Philosophers' Game: An Introduction to its History and Rules 263 Jurgen Stigter With a postscript by Peter Mebben and Jurgen Stigter 31 Robert Stewart Culin and New World Games 270 Bonita Freeman-Witthoft Index 275 iv I Ancient Board Games in Perspecti, PPN: 26452098X Titel: Ancient board games in perspective : papers from the 1990 British Museum colloquium with additional contributions / ed. by I. L. Finkel. - London : British Museum Press, 2007 ISBN: 0-7141-1153-8; 978-0-7141-1153-7 Bibliographischer Datensatz im SWB-Verbund.