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Senet

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A named thirty-square board-game of Egyptian tomb and later play. Not a chunkey stone, not the Chessboard of Gwenddoleu, and not a generic lot.

Egyptian religion

  • Senet appears in Egyptian religion.

    The Book of the Dead seats senet among games the dead may play in the otherworld vignette-world. A named senet board in that corpus, not mehen-board as the coiled-serpent game and not a generic board-game dump.

    from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972

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sources

  • Book of the Dead · Raymond O. Faulkner (translation)

    Raymond O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.