5/31/2023 0 Comments Oswald hat gameIt bears the arms of Wattenwyl (Watteville). Each player apparently had seven men and six dice.Ī Renaissance backgammon board of wood, partly carved and partly decorated with marquetry of walnut, sycamore, pearwood, Hungarian ash and holly, stained. One set of men consisted of simple black squares, each inlaid with five lapis dots the others were shell squares engraved with vignettes. This one was less lavishly decorated, but under the board, in neat piles, were found two sets of playing pieces and dice. Soon after Woolley’s discovery, in another part of ancient Mesopotamia, archaeologists found a similar gaming board. They were made of wood, intricately decorated with a mosaic of shell, bone, lapis lazuli, black paste, and black limestone set in bitumen, and adorned with animals and rosettes. ![]() In the royal cemetery he found five game layouts which bear some slight resemblance to our backgammon boards. The most ancient possible ancestor of the game to be found so far dates back some five thousand years to the ancient civilization of Sumer which flourished in southern Mesopotamia in what is now Iraq.ĭuring the 1920s Sir Leonard Woolley, the British archaeologist, excavated Ur of the Chaldees, the Biblical home of Abraham. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest Fund, 1934.) ![]() Mongol School, from a fourteenth-century Shahnama. A Persian miniature portraying Buzurjmihr showing the game of backgammon to the Indian rajah.
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