Pavement Designs and Game Boards from Public Spaces of Ancient Athens

A Review Across the Board

Datos Bibliográficos

ID22017663
AutoresBarbara Carè (0000-0002-3862-6151, Italian School of Archaeology at Athens, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen16
Número1
Páginas225-249
Fecha de publicación2022-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBoard Game Studies Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2183-3311 • E-ISSN: 2183-3311
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.2478/bgs-2022-0008
OpenAlexW4224879173
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas21

The paper aims to offer significant new additions to the record of pavements designs known from archaeological contexts in the ancient Mediterranean, giving an overview of the patterns carved on marble steeps and floors in public spaces of ancient Athens. Given the problematic interpretation of carved outlines in ancient public spaces, the contribution focuses on features and locations of these patterns in the attempt to provide identification of actual game boards, contextualize them and propose their plausible chronological setting. The need to more fully understand the social and cultural dimension of play in ancient societies is now crucial to archaeological research; this paper is also offered as a contribution to approaching that understanding

Ancient city · Archaeology · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Computer Science · History