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Game of 58 Holes
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Game of 58 Holes
Date: 1300 - 1200 BC
Place: Megiddo, [Israel].
Made of Ivory and gold
Photographed at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
This game board is dated to the time of the Judges of Israel. I wonder who used it?
Dogs and Jackals or 58 holes
Date: 2000 - 1500 BC
Place: Lebanon, perhaps Tyre
Limestone with reproduction pegs.
Photographed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts USA.
Hippo Game Board for 58 holes
Date: 664 - 332 BC
Place: None given
Photographed at the Louvre Museum, Paris, France.
Terracotta Game Board for 58 Holes
Photographed at the Louvre Museum, Paris, France.
Terracotta Game Board for 58 Holes
Date: Not given
Place: Egypt
Photographed at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London, England.
Terracotta Game Board for 58 Holes
Date: 700 - 500 BC
Place: Probably from Ur
Photographed at the British Museum, London, England.