Peter A. Piccione's In Search of the Meaning of Senet, published in Archaeology magazine, the Archaeological Institute of America's flagship publication, in 1980, is a scholarly article examining the ancient Egyptian board game senet's evolution from a purely secular pastime into a game with genuine religious and funerary significance, understood in later periods as symbolising the deceased's journey through the afterlife. Its strength is that it is written by a specialist Egyptologist for a peer-adjacent, editorially reviewed archaeological publication aimed at both scholarly and informed general readers. Its limit is that senet's religious symbolism developed and was understood differently across different periods of ancient Egyptian history, so a claim about the game's meaning should specify which period is meant rather than treating one article length overview as covering the game's entire multi-millennium history uniformly.
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Peter Piccione's In Search of the Meaning of Senet, published in Archaeology magazine by the Archaeological Institute of America in 1980, is a peer-reviewed article by an Egyptologist who has published extensively on the senet board game specifically, treated at the top tier. NotesPeter Piccione's article on the meaning of the ancient Egyptian game of senet, published in Archaeology.
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AuthorPeter A. Piccione
PublisherArchaeological Institute of America
Publication Year1980
Source TypeJournal article
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- Sources, 9 claims: 7 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Rituals, 7 claims: 4 well-attested, 2 open question, 1 general references.
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