Talk:Senet

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Senat? Senet?

Are Senet and Senat different games or (as I suspect) actually two alternate spellings of the same game? Luis Dantas 16:55, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

They are the same, I will merge "Senat" here. Andreas Kaufmann 22:31, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Backgammon

Maybe we should add some reference to backgammon here, as it is frequently claimed that Senet is an ancient antecedent to backgammon. Is there merit in this?

--92.14.178.226 (talk) 00:24, 20 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nearly every source I have ever seen on the history of backgammon says this is true. Of course, it really needs a footnote. --Steven J. Anderson (talk) 00:51, 20 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lost

-- In the "Lost" mention, shouldn't it include that the whole Series is how Jacob and his brother play Senet using HUmans as pieces? That the end where they all are living in a "limbo" and waiting for the last one to die and join them so they can all "finish the game together"?--79.141.46.227 (talk) 15:52, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wordings in "In Modern Culture"

Some rewordings to fit the tone of an encyclopedia would be great for this section.D65535 (talk) 09:16, 15 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment comment

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Though not a member of the Ancient Egypt WikiProject, I feel that I can safely evaluate Senet as start-class. So far, it is informative and does not need cleanup or NPOV fixing. However, it is composed of nought but an introduction and one short section of prose. If there are more editors willing to contribute, I'm sure the article can be expanded greatly. --Gray Porpo ise 22:17, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Rules?

But what arethe conjectured rules? I guess one moves forward... Zezen (talk) 08:43, 30 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Egyptian Name

The Egyptian name of the game was 𓊃𓈖𓏏𓏠 (znt), which means “passing” both in the sense of surpassing and in the sense of passing away. I’m unable to find any attestations of the phrase znt nt ḥbꜥ(t), and as far as I can tell Piccione does not provide a reference for it. The phrase ḥꜥb znt (“to play senet”) is common, but nominalized ḥbꜥt (“game”) is not attested until the 3rd c. BC and can hardly have been part of the original name. Best to cite the Egyptian form as simple znt. Rhemmiel (talk) 13:39, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Game box photo

Even thought the brown (with green pawns) game box is a 2-in-1 set containing Senet, the photo only shows a side with a different game. Perhaps photo should be replaced? The game itself, according to the Metropolitan Museum of Art page, from where the photo comes from, is called Tjau, though i've also seen it being called Aseb or even Game of Twenty Squares (yeah, just like Royal Game of Ur). — Preceding unsigned comment added by HYBRID BEING (talk • contribs) 22:45, 14 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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