Object card·SAL_6424·1971

Limestone games board, Huilerie sector

Limestone games board, Huilerie sector
Object card: 1971. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_6424. "Limestone games board, Huilerie sector". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Limestone slab of the Jeux des douze lignes (twelve-line game) board, SAL_6424, inventory Po_0620, negative 05336_01, plate PL_53, square I III, Huilerie. Only one corner of the slab survives but the game is complete: three long parallel lines crossed by twelve perpendicular lines, engraved at 5.5 from the edge, forming twenty-two rectangular cases of 2.5 x 4. Slab dimensions 61 x 43 x 19 cm; the slab was reused in the paving of the Byzantine building known as the Huilerie. Inventory Po_0620; 4 May 1971.

French, as on the record

type :TABLES A JEU jeu gravé à 5,5 du bord un seul angle de la plaque est conservé mais le jeu est complet. Plaque : 61 x 43 x 19 carre : I III forme : Jeux des douze lignes inv objet : Po_0620 negatif : 05336_01 pub : SAL_PUB_139904_XI_XI_CAT_06_0576_p_0197 cases : 2,5 x 4. — Le jeu est formé de trois longues lignes parallèles barrées de douze lignes perpendiculaires, elles-mêmes gravées à intervalles plus ou moins réguliers vingt-quatre lignes formant vingt-deux cases rectangulaires, sont ainsi marquées. — Cette plaque était employée dans le dallage du bâtiment byzantin dit de l’huilerie. chantier : Huilerie — Calcaire num planche : PL_53

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