Board of Abd-al-Rahman III's daughter
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In the Burgos (Spain) Museum there is a mancala game board coming from the San Domingo de Silos monastery. It belonged to Abd-al-Rahman III's daughter. Abd-al-Rahman III (891-961) was the emir (912-929) and first caliph (929-961) of Cordoba.
The board is shaped as a modern "pencil" board, ie. it is folded along the longest axis and once closed shaped as a cylinder. It is made of ivory and metal, and it is 46,5cm long. It has two rows of five pits and each pit is 9cm wide. There's almost no distance from the pits to the limits of the board.
According to Silva Santa-Cruz the board is now in the Museo de Burgos, with the inventory number 244, and is considered a "games case" (estuche de juegos).
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References
- Cosín Corral, Yolanda & Constantino García Aparicio
- (1998) 'Alquerque, mancala y dados: juegos musulmanes en la ciudad de vascos', in Revista de Arqueología, January, year XIX, number 201, Madrid.
- Rosser-Owen, Mariam
- (1999) 'A Córdoban ivory pysis lid in the ashmolean museum', in Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World, XVI, 16-31.
- Silva Santa-Cruz, Noelia
- (1999) 'Nuevos datos para el estudio de dos piezas de eboraria califal: arquetas de la iglesia parroquial de Fitero y del Instituto Valencia de Don Juan', in Anales de Historia del Arte, 9, 27-33, ISSN 0214 6452.
