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The Royal Game of Ur, southern Iraq, 2600-2400 BCE. The board has twenty squares made of shell: five squares each have flower rosettes, eyes and circled dots. Two players competed to race their pieces from one end of the board to the other. The boards appear to have been hollow with the pieces stored inside. Examples of this "Game of Twenty" date from about 3000 BCE to the first millennieum CE. A version of the Mesopotamian game survived within the Jewish community at Cochin, South India, until modern times. ANE, 120834
Location
British Museum/London/Great Britain
Unique Identifier
ART200596
Type
Image
Purpose
Public
Size
4000px × 2725px
Photo Credit
Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY
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Board Game
Game, Entertainment
Mesopotamian
Square, Geometric Shape
Ur, Sumer