光盘：骰子或游戏件（？） - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	光盘：骰子或游戏件（？）
品名（英）	Disc: die or gaming piece (?)
入馆年号	1959年，59.41.68
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 3000 - 公元前 1000
创作地区
分类
尺寸	直径 1.8 厘米 x 深 .5 厘米
介绍（中）	像这样的对象如果不作为集合的一部分保存，可能会带来解释问题。游戏配件很少与游戏板一起取回。在尼普尔的恩利尔神庙地区发现了一场58洞的比赛，与三个粘土平凸圆盘有关。圆盘的圆形侧面有标记，平面侧面有平面，推测是为了确定碎片沿着木板的运动。它们会根据着陆时标记或未标记的一侧指示不同的值。这个来自尼普尔的骨盘，边缘有两条双切割线，也可能被用作模具。古代近东的种族游戏中使用了各种各样的两面骰子，比如这里的四面或六面骰子如果不是一个骰子，这个圆盘可能是20方块游戏的一套棋子的一部分，也在尼普尔得到了证实。每个玩家的棋子数量似乎随着时间的推移而变化，可能在公元前两千年和公元前一千年从苏美尔版本的七个减少到五个。
介绍（英）	Objects such as this one can present problems of interpretation when they are not preserved as part of a set. Gaming accessories are rarely retrieved together with game boards. A game of 58 holes was discovered in association with three clay plano-convex discs in the area of the Enlil temple at Nippur. The discs, with the rounded side marked and the flat side plain, were presumably cast to determine the movement of the pieces along the board. They would have indicated a different value depending on the side, marked or unmarked, they landed. This bone disk from Nippur with two double incised lines on the edge may also have been used as a die. A great variety of dice—with two, like here, four, or six sides—have been used with race games in the ancient Near East. If not a die, this disc could have been part of a set of playing pieces for the game of 20 squares, also attested at Nippur. The number of pieces for each player seems to vary across time and probably decrease from seven for the Sumerian version to five during the 2nd and 1st millennium B.C.