Game of Ur ~ Paint your own
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Paint your own Needle Eye (also known as the royal game of Ur)! This run is limited to 25. Photographs show two of the first boards made out of Oak. As wood is a natural material there will be variations in colour and grain. Paint brushes and dice colours may vary. I will let you know ahead of time, or message me to find out what i have in stock. Made to order, please allow 2 weeks.
Board dimensions 20 x 7.5 x 1 cm
Box measures 20 x 16 x 8 cm
The first in our collaboration series - we'll make the boards you paint your unique design and play them. Limited to 25 units, each one is made to order so please allow 10-15 days for me to make and pack before sending out.
Contents
2 x Paint brushes (1 flat. 1 round)
6 x Satin acrylic paint in pots
1 x Needle Eye game board
14 x Wooden totems
3 x Pyramidal dice
The board & totems have been sanded & oiled with linseed oil. We suggest lightly penciling your design on each of the squares before you start painting.
The paints supplied are non-toxic water based. Please allow one hour or once touch dry before applying a second coat. Paint will be fully dry within 24 hours depending on temperature.
How will you design your board?
History behind the Royal game of Ur
During 1922 & 1934 the English archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley unearthed a game board during his excavations in a tomb at the Royal Cemetery of Ur. The city of Ur was an important Sumerian city-state in Mesopotamia, which is located near Nasiriyah in southern Iraq.
The game board dated between 2600-2400 BCE. Now on display at the British Museum it has become commonly known as the Royal Game of Ur. Rules have been hypothesised by H.J.R Murray, Robert Charles Bell & most recently or most famously by Irving Finkel. The boards found in Ur were accompanied by small round counters, each with five dots on them, seven light & seven dark. Also found were six pyramidal dice each with two dots on two of the four corners. The game seemed popular across the Middle East as boards have been unearthed in Iran, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Cyprus & Crete. Although these boards had various patterns on the squares of the play field, the only consistent factor between them all has been that five of the same squares on the board have rosettes inscribed on them. The consensus has been that these squares have a special significance.
The main inspiration for our board designs have come from the Phoencians. The round counters are now more like totems & select rules from the different theories on how to play have been collated.
Oakes & Oakes has now renamed the game. Needle Eye.
Board dimensions 20 x 7.5 x 1 cm
Box measures 20 x 16 x 8 cm
The first in our collaboration series - we'll make the boards you paint your unique design and play them. Limited to 25 units, each one is made to order so please allow 10-15 days for me to make and pack before sending out.
Contents
2 x Paint brushes (1 flat. 1 round)
6 x Satin acrylic paint in pots
1 x Needle Eye game board
14 x Wooden totems
3 x Pyramidal dice
The board & totems have been sanded & oiled with linseed oil. We suggest lightly penciling your design on each of the squares before you start painting.
The paints supplied are non-toxic water based. Please allow one hour or once touch dry before applying a second coat. Paint will be fully dry within 24 hours depending on temperature.
How will you design your board?
History behind the Royal game of Ur
During 1922 & 1934 the English archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley unearthed a game board during his excavations in a tomb at the Royal Cemetery of Ur. The city of Ur was an important Sumerian city-state in Mesopotamia, which is located near Nasiriyah in southern Iraq.
The game board dated between 2600-2400 BCE. Now on display at the British Museum it has become commonly known as the Royal Game of Ur. Rules have been hypothesised by H.J.R Murray, Robert Charles Bell & most recently or most famously by Irving Finkel. The boards found in Ur were accompanied by small round counters, each with five dots on them, seven light & seven dark. Also found were six pyramidal dice each with two dots on two of the four corners. The game seemed popular across the Middle East as boards have been unearthed in Iran, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Cyprus & Crete. Although these boards had various patterns on the squares of the play field, the only consistent factor between them all has been that five of the same squares on the board have rosettes inscribed on them. The consensus has been that these squares have a special significance.
The main inspiration for our board designs have come from the Phoencians. The round counters are now more like totems & select rules from the different theories on how to play have been collated.
Oakes & Oakes has now renamed the game. Needle Eye.
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