Home›Open Questions›How was senet actually played, and how did its rules carry the funerary meaning the New Kingdom sources give it?Open QuestionsHow was senet actually played, and how did its rules carry the funerary meaning the New Kingdom sources give it?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "How was senet actually played, and how did its rules carry the funerary meaning the New Kingdom sources give it?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/how-was-senet-actually-played-and-how-did-its-rules-carry-the-funerary-meaning-the-new-kingdom-sources-give-it.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). How was senet actually played, and how did its rules carry the funerary meaning the New Kingdom sources give it?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/how-was-senet-actually-played-and-how-did-its-rules-carry-the-funerary-meaning-the-new-kingdom-sources-give-itCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-how-was-senet-actually-played-and-how-di, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {How was senet actually played, and how did its rules carry the funerary meaning the New Kingdom sources give it?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/how-was-senet-actually-played-and-how-did-its-rules-carry-the-funerary-meaning-the-new-kingdom-sources-give-it}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionNo complete ancient rule text survives. Play is reconstructed from board layouts, marked squares and the partial instructions in late funerary compositions, and competing reconstructions disagree on movement and on how the marked squares functioned.What would resolve this A papyrus or ostracon setting out the rules of play in full, from a securely dated context, or a securely dated board with an inscribed sequence complete enough to fix movement independently of the later funerary texts.OpenEgyptology; the archaeology of gamesPeter A. Piccione, In Search of the Meaning of Senet, in Archaeology 33Cross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnSenet, Rituals Well-attested Source In Search of the Meaning of Senet, in Archaeology 33Peter A. Piccionetier 1SourcesIn Search of the Meaning of Senet, in Archaeology 33tier 1Peter A. Piccione, Archaeological Institute of America, 1980Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year