Anne E . Dunn-Vaturi
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Department Member
Hounds and Jackals is the modern name given to a game found in a tomb of the Middle Kingdom at Thebes, Egypt. About eighty examples of boards were found in funerary and domestic contexts in Egypt and the Middle East where the game is... more
Hounds and Jackals is the modern name given to a game found in a tomb of the Middle Kingdom at Thebes, Egypt. About eighty examples of boards were found in funerary and domestic contexts in Egypt and the Middle East where the game is attested until the middle of the first millennium BCE. Despite its popularity, we still do not know the ancient name of the game and how it was played precisely. This paper evokes the game in modern contexts, by recounting its historiography and presenting some reconstructions.
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Problems of identification with gaming material often occur even when the object is complete. The game of 20 squares is no exception. The challenge of identifying gaming material is even greater with fragmentary evidence. A greenstone... more
Problems of identification with gaming material often occur even when the object is complete. The game of 20 squares is no exception. The challenge of identifying gaming material is even greater with fragmentary evidence. A greenstone plate from Tell Afis described as a cosmetic palette with sunken compartments on both sides should probably also be reinterpreted as a playing device.
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A unit has the responsibility since 1997 to audit the loans of antiques from the Louvre Museum. Significant searches in the archives and on-the-spot visits have allowed us to itemize, in addition to the works of the Louvre attributed to... more
A unit has the responsibility since 1997 to audit the loans of antiques from the Louvre Museum. Significant searches in the archives and on-the-spot visits have allowed us to itemize, in addition to the works of the Louvre attributed to French and foreign museums, the archaeological collections belonging to those museums. The presentation of this material is the continuation of the inventory of Cypriot antiquities in France, undertaken by Annie Caubet when she started out in the Département des antiquités orientales.
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Music and dance are well represented among the Louvre's collections. In 1935, Marguerite Rutten studied music and dance scenes housed in the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art, and music at the Louvre was the subject of a... more
Music and dance are well represented among the Louvre's collections. In 1935, Marguerite Rutten studied music and dance scenes housed in the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art, and music at the Louvre was the subject of a catalogue dedicated to Michel Laclotte, Director ...