Ancient board games in perspective : papers from the 1990 British Museum colloquium, with additional contributions / edited by I. L. Finkel.

Yer Numarası
B.I/5449
ISBN
9780714111537
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yayın Bilgisi
London : The British Museum Press, 2007.
Fiziksel Niteleme
vi, 281 s. : resim, çizim, harita, grafik, tablo ; 30 cm
Genel Not
İndeks s. 275-281.
İçindekiler Notu
Board games in perspective : an introduction / Irving L. Finkel, s. 1-4 -- Homo Ludens : the earliest board games in the Near East / St. John Simpson, s. 5-10 -- The Royal Game of Ur / Andrea Becker, s. 11-15 -- On the rules for the Royal Game of Ur / Irving L. Finkel, s. 16-32 -- Mehen : the ancient Egyptian game of the serpent / Timothy Kendall, s. 33-45 -- Were there gamesters in pharaonic Egypt? / W. J. Tait, s. 46-53 -- The Egyptian game of senet and the migration of the soul / Peter A. Piccione, s, 54-63 -- The game of hounds and jackals / A. J. Hoerth, s. 64-68 -- The Egyptian 'Game of Twenty Squares' : is it related to 'marbles' and the game of the snake? / Edgar B. Pusch, s. 69-86 -- Board games and their symbols from Roman times to early Christianity / Anita Rieche, s. 87-89 -- Inscribed Imperial Roman gaming-boards / Nicholas Purcell, s. 90-97 -- Notes on pavement games of Greece and Rome / R. C. Bell, s. 98-99 -- Late Roman and Byzantine game boards at Aphrodisias / Charlotte Roueché, s. 100-105 -- Graeco-Roman pavement signs and game boards : a British Museum working typology / R. C. Bell, C. M. Roueché, s. 106-109 -- Game boards at Vijayanagara: a preliminary report / John M. Fritz, David Gibson, s. 110-115 -- Horse coins : pieces for Da Ma, the Chinese board-game 'driving the horses' / Joe Cribb, s. 116-124 -- An introduction to board games in late Imperial China / Andrew Lo, s. 125-132 -- Go in China / John Fairbairn, s. 133-137 -- The beginnings of chess / Michael Mark, s. 138-157 -- Grandmasters of shatranj and the dating of chess / R. D. Keene ; with an addendum by Richard Eales, s. 158-161 -- Changing cultures : the reception of chess into Western Europe in the Middle Ages / Richard Eales, s. 162-168 -- Board games in Central Asia and Iran / Grigori L. Semenov, s. 169-176 -- Board games and backgammon in ancient Indian sculpture / Micaela Soar, s. 177-231 -- Notes on the early history of the backgammon family in China / Andrew Lo, s. 232-234 -- A late eleventh-century tabulae set from Gloucester / I. J. Stewart, s. 235-237 -- A brief history of backgammon and the design of the board / Malcolm J. Watkins, s. 238-241 -- An Overview of mancala rules and variations / L. Russ, s. 242-244 -- The typological spread of the game of mancala / Philip Townshend, s. 245-249 -- Mancala game boards as African emblems of status / R. A. Walker, s. 250-255 -- The pursuit of hnefatafl / Ian Riddler, s. 256-262 -- Rithmomachia, the philosophers' game : an introduction to its history and rules / Jurgen Stigter ; with a postscript by Peter Mebben and Jurgen Stigter, s. 263-269 -- Robert Stewart Culin and new world games / Bonita Freeman-Witthoft, s. 270- 274.
Emeği Geçenler
FinkelI, I. L. (Irving L.), editör.