The Indus Civilization c10.12

c10.12

Fortunately, however, a brick found at Mohenjo-daro is incised with rectangles in three rows of four, and this was evidently a game-board, or perhaps only part of one, as it seems to have come from a pavement. One of the squares on this brick is marked with crossed lines which may have denoted a “home,” and if it is assumed that the adjoining end bricks, now missing, were similarly marked and that there were originally ten rows of three, the game played upon them would have resembled the ancient Egyptian game of *Sent*. If, on the other hand, there were originally twenty-six compartments, arranged with twelve in three rows at one end, twelve in two rows at the other, and two between, it would resemble a Sumerian board found by Dr. Woolley at Ur. The pavement of a house or courtyard would have been quite a good place on which to mark out a game-board, and many unprofitable hours were no doubt whiled away by the servants who cut this board.