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Recreational game pieces
Nubian
Napatan Period, reign of unknown ruler
664–643 B.C.
Findspot: Nubia (Sudan), Beg. South, Pyramid 86
Medium/Technique
Faience
Credit Line
Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession Number21.12079.1
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Egypt, Nubia and the Near East
ClassificationsTools and equipment
Descriptiona) Game pieces: body paste gray in some, red in others. The latter now yellow outside. Marble shaped (roughly spherical) nineteen complete plus fragments of three others. Four have red body paste, one with pale green body paste.
ProvenanceFrom Beg. South, Pyramid 86, 1921: excavated by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA by the government of Sudan.