Games and Music

This category includes objects, or the remainders of objects used to create music.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
3163A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Children's rattles. Mince-pie pattern with scalloped edge.
6013	(none)	(none)	(none)	Baked brick game board square incisions on one face. Design scratched in after baking. [design 1:2]
6018A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-L] 12 knucklebones.
6124	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gaming board. Fragmentary. Greyish red clay. Specially constructed for game and not as usual incised on ordinary building brick after baking. Dimension of squares 20mm by 20mm. E. [drawing]
6550	(none)	(none)	B16352	Domino or Inlay? Black steatite square, one face like 5 of domino. E. [drawing 1:1]
6551	(none)	1927,0527.152	(none)	Die. White bone. E. [drawing 1:1]
6864	(none)	1927,0527.249	(none)	Clay rattle. Common type. Nobbed decoration round rims. E.
7110A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta rattle. Common type. 2 convex hemispheres joined together concave sides inwards. Circumferences roughly moulded to form rope like decoration. B.
7510	(none)	(none)	(none)	Child's rattle. Baked clay. 2 flattened hemispherical parts joined mouth to mouth, indented circumference. Pierced through the middle. Common in IIIrd Dynasty cemetery at Diqdiqqeh.
7598	(none)	(none)	(none)	Rattle in form of terracotta pig. Part of head and 2 legs missing. Incised line down back and incised parallel curves down sides to indicate hair? [drawing 1:1]
8020A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Two squares. [A] One of white bone. [B] One of dark grey stone. Each set with 5 inlay dots, black on the white square, white on the black, thus: [drawing 1:1]
8020B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Two squares. [A] One of white bone. [B] One of dark grey stone. Each set with 5 inlay dots, black on the white square, white on the black, thus: [drawing 1:1]
8488	(none)	(none)	(none)	Rattle Baked clay Circular box, straight sided. Top and bottom slightly convex. Rim of covers sharply indented. 2 diameters incised at right angles to one another at top and bottom. Perforated through middle [drawing]
8509A	(none)	1928,1009.380 a	(none)	Set of buttons? [A-I] 9 black stone roundels, 8 of them inlaid with white dots, six round the edge and one central one: the 9th roundel plain. [J-O] And 6 bone squares, plain, one engraved. See field notes.[drawing] [P] And with them a bone rod with engraved lines.
8632	(none)	(none)	(none)	Roundels. 7 black and 7 white The black inlaid with 5 white shell spots The white inlaid with 5 lapis spots Found lying in a row, arranged in alternate colors [drawing]
8633A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gaming pieces(?) [A-D] 4 black and [E-K] 7 white. The white are flattened spheres, shell, marked on the top with an incised cross. The black are solid triangles with slightly convex sides having a white spot (shell) inlaid at two of the angles [drawing].
9000	(none)	1928,1009.378	(none)	Originally of wood (which has disappeared and left no trace at all), the top and edges encrusted with bone, shell, lapis and red paste tesserae set in bitumen: the bone tesserae are themselves engraved with geometrical and other patterns and inlaid with red paste and lapis. The board is in 2 unequal parts, rectangular, joined by a narrow neck: the upper part consists of 6 squares inside the border, the neck is 1 square wide and 2 long, the lower part had originally 4 rows of squares (12) and below those one or more rows of long triangular tesserae, shell and mother of pearl, with red paste triangles between them, the points of (one row of) the white tesserae pointing downwards. When found the object lay face downwards and on a slant: the upper part, nect, and 3 rows of squares of the lower part were complete, all except for one square at the bottom of the 4th row there was left there in position only a broken corner of a square. The broken square and 3 others, and also a number of triangles, were found separately in the dirt in front and below, but part of a row of white triangles (the red paste was reduced to powder) lay points upwards and face outwards against the back of the board: clearly the latter had been broken and doubled back: the tesserae at the line of the break had sprung and been dislodged. [drawing 1:5]
9357A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-D] 4 Bone disks Perforated in middle
10412	(none)	1928,1010.1	(none)	Harp The upright of wood with gold cap, bound below with gold and with a bitumen shoe: in the upright are the keys, copper nails with gilt heads. The body has disappeared, but there was a vertical border of gold and lapis along the edge. On the body stood a wooden sounding-box, the edge inlaid with shell having patterns in red paint and lapis. The head of the harp, in front, was a gold bulls head with eyes, hair, and beard of lapis. Found in very bad condition, all the wood gone and only the decoration left, but that virtually in its original position
10478A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gaming-Board. With men and dice. [A] The board is of the usual shape with vertical borders of shell and red stone strips: round the edge a mosaic of minute tesserae in blue, red, and white. The squares were of the original wood which formed the body of the board, each square inlaid with 5 eyes of shell having red or blue centres, except for two which are squares of shell inlaid with a flower rosette having red and blue petals: the squares are divided by narrow ivory strips inlaid with red and blue dots. The wood has perished and has been replaced with plaster of paris. Under one end of the board were found the men in 2 piles: there are [C] 7 white and [B] 7 black, the latter of shell inlaid with 5 white spots, the former of shell engraved with animal scenes, the details and the background filled in with black. Under the other end of the board was [D] a set of six dice of white shell, solid triangles, having blue dots at 2 of the 4 points of each: scattered in the neighborhood was a [E] second set of lapis with gold points, of which only 4 were found. Found behind the chariot.
10478B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gaming-Board. With men and dice. [A] The board is of the usual shape with vertical borders of shell and red stone strips: round the edge a mosaic of minute tesserae in blue, red, and white. The squares were of the original wood which formed the body of the board, each square inlaid with 5 eyes of shell having red or blue centres, except for two which are squares of shell inlaid with a flower rosette having red and blue petals: the squares are divided by narrow ivory strips inlaid with red and blue dots. The wood has perished and has been replaced with plaster of paris. Under one end of the board were found the men in 2 piles: there are [C] 7 white and [B] 7 black, the latter of shell inlaid with 5 white spots, the former of shell engraved with animal scenes, the details and the background filled in with black. Under the other end of the board was [D] a set of six dice of white shell, solid triangles, having blue dots at 2 of the 4 points of each: scattered in the neighborhood was a [E] second set of lapis with gold points, of which only 4 were found. Found behind the chariot.
10478C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gaming-Board. With men and dice. [A] The board is of the usual shape with vertical borders of shell and red stone strips: round the edge a mosaic of minute tesserae in blue, red, and white. The squares were of the original wood which formed the body of the board, each square inlaid with 5 eyes of shell having red or blue centres, except for two which are squares of shell inlaid with a flower rosette having red and blue petals: the squares are divided by narrow ivory strips inlaid with red and blue dots. The wood has perished and has been replaced with plaster of paris. Under one end of the board were found the men in 2 piles: there are [C] 7 white and [B] 7 black, the latter of shell inlaid with 5 white spots, the former of shell engraved with animal scenes, the details and the background filled in with black. Under the other end of the board was [D] a set of six dice of white shell, solid triangles, having blue dots at 2 of the 4 points of each: scattered in the neighborhood was a [E] second set of lapis with gold points, of which only 4 were found. Found behind the chariot.
10478D	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gaming-Board. With men and dice. [A] The board is of the usual shape with vertical borders of shell and red stone strips: round the edge a mosaic of minute tesserae in blue, red, and white. The squares were of the original wood which formed the body of the board, each square inlaid with 5 eyes of shell having red or blue centres, except for two which are squares of shell inlaid with a flower rosette having red and blue petals: the squares are divided by narrow ivory strips inlaid with red and blue dots. The wood has perished and has been replaced with plaster of paris. Under one end of the board were found the men in 2 piles: there are [C] 7 white and [B] 7 black, the latter of shell inlaid with 5 white spots, the former of shell engraved with animal scenes, the details and the background filled in with black. Under the other end of the board was [D] a set of six dice of white shell, solid triangles, having blue dots at 2 of the 4 points of each: scattered in the neighborhood was a [E] second set of lapis with gold points, of which only 4 were found. Found behind the chariot.
10478E	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gaming-Board With men & dice [A] The board is of the usual shape with vertical borders of shell and red stone strips: round the edge a mosaic of minute tesserae in blue, red, and white. The squares were of the original wood which formed the body of the board, each square inlaid with 5 eyes of shell having red or blue centres, except for two which are squares of shell inlaid with a flower rosette having red and blue petals: the squares are divided by narrow ivory strips inlaid with red and blue dots. The wood has perished and has been replaced with plaster of paris. Under one end of the board were found the men in 2 piles: there are [C] 7 white and [B] 7 black, the latter of shell inlaid with 5 white spots, the former of shell engraved with animal scenes, the details and the background filled in with black. Under the other end of the board was [D] a set of six dice of white shell, solid triangles, having blue dots at 2 of the 4 points of each: scattered in the neighborhood was a [E] second set of lapis with gold points, of which only 4 were found
10556A	(none)	(none)	B17694B	[A] Bull's head. Gold, with lapis hair between the horns and a lapis beard set in silver; the gold horns are tipped with lapis. [B]The body was of wood (see Field Notes) and down the front are [C] shell plaques with engraved mythological scenes