碎片游戏板：58洞游戏 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	碎片游戏板：58洞游戏
品名（英）	Fragmentary gaming board: game of 58 holes
入馆年号	1936年，36.70.37g
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 1800 - 公元前 1700
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分类
尺寸	1 11/16 × 2 5/8 × 3/16 英寸 (4.3 × 6.6 × 0.6 厘米)
介绍（中）	这块碎片属于一组雕刻象牙，主要是家具元素，可能是在安纳托利亚中部Acemhöyük的一座宫殿遗址发现的。就像大都会博物馆收藏的另一件作品（36.70.37a2），它最初是一个游戏板的一部分，用于玩一种古老的游戏，今天被称为五十八洞游戏。该游戏是两名玩家之间的比赛，游戏片以钉子的形式插入每个玩家的轨道上的洞中，就像在现代的克里比奇游戏中一样，尽管这两个游戏没有关联58个洞中的一个来自埃及，比如底比斯的一个例子，那里仍然有动物头钉（埃及艺术部，26.7.1287），游戏本身可能起源于那里。有趣的是，在安纳托利亚的古亚述语境中发现的零碎完整的游戏板都有61个洞；这种特质与美索不达米亚的六进制（即使用60进制的数字系统）有关并且有人提出游戏板被用于会计以及休闲。埃及和近东已知有70多块这种类型的木板，其中包括一块来自Acemhöyük的木板，现藏于安卡拉安纳托利亚文明博物馆。
介绍（英）	This fragment belongs to a group of carved ivories, mostly furniture elements, probably found at the site of a palace at Acemhöyük in central Anatolia. Like another piece in the Metropolitan Museum’s collection (36.70.37a2), it was originally part of a gaming board for playing an ancient game known today as the game of fifty-eight holes. The game was played as a race between two players with game pieces in the form of pegs that were inserted into the holes making up each player’s track, as in the modern game of cribbage, although the two games are not related. Since the earliest boards for the game of fifty-eight holes come from Egypt, such as an example from Thebes which still has its animal-headed pegs (Department of Egyptian Art, 26.7.1287), the game itself may have originated there. Interestingly, the fragmentary and complete game boards found in Old Assyrian contexts in Anatolia all have 61 holes; this idiosyncrasy has been linked to the Mesopotamian sexagesimal system (that is, a system of numerals using base 60) and it has been suggested that the game boards were used for accounting as well as leisure. More than seventy examples of boards of this type are known from Egypt and the Near East, including an additional board from Acemhöyük now in the Ankara Museum of Anatolian Civilizations.