Sujet
The Royal Game of Ur, from Ur, southern Iraq, c2600-c2400 BC. Artist: Unknown
Légende
The Royal Game of Ur, from Ur, southern Iraq, c2600-c2400 BC. This game board is one of several with a similar layout found by Leonard Woolley in the Royal Cemetery at Ur. The board has twenty squares made of shell and was made for two players. Examples of this 'Game of Twenty Squares' date from about 3000 BC to the first millennium AD and are found widely from the eastern Mediterranean and Egypt to India. A version of the Mesopotamian game survived within the Jewish community at Cochin, South India until modern times. From the British Museum's collection.
Date
2600 av. J.-C.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/CM Dixon
Notre référence
HRM19B75_382
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
50,4Mo (2,9Mo) / 43,9cm x 28,8cm / 5180 x 3403 (300dpi)