The Indus Civilization c10.13

c10.13

Another brick has been discovered, but with one end missing, which seems to have been marked out for a game played with pebbles or beans. Four lines of shallow depressions, the best-preserved line having fifteen, are scooped out of one face of the brick; but there is nothing to distinguish one hole from another and the entire arrangement suggests a game-board used by various African tribes. Some of the African boards, which are all very similar except in the number of holes, are provided with compartments to take the forfeited pieces, and in the brick from Mohenjo-daro four holes standing apart from the rows probably served this purpose. This brick, also, may have come from a pavement.