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Games board. This game of Senet or 30-squares was inscribed for Harmosi, 'excellent recorder of the senior superintendant of his divine majesty'. Pieces for this game were made of faience and represented Asiatic captives, Anubis and a tower.
Length: 33 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1940) by Hanbury, D. H. T.
Eighteenth Dynasty
Circa
-1550
-
Circa
-1295
Accession number: E.29.1940
Primary reference Number: 54359
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
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