File:Tabula - boardgame - Zeno game.svg
Summary
Diagram of a tabula game played in 480 circa by Eastern Roman Emperor <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Flavius_Zeno" title="Flavius Zeno">Zeno</a>. The game, whose mechanics is similar to <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Backgammon" class="mw-redirect" title="Backgammon">backgammon</a>, is noteworthy because the Emperor had a very unlucky result and the situation was recorded in an epigram by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Agathias&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Agathias (page does not exist)">Agathias</a>. Zeno drew 2, 5 and 6 on his dices, and he was forced to move one piece from XX to XXII, one from XVIIII to XXIIII and one from X to XVI (Robert Charles Bell, Board and table games from many civilizations, Courier Dover Publications, 1979, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0486238555" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 0486238555</a>, pp. 33-35).
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| current | 04:27, 4 January 2017 | | 585 × 303 (31 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | Diagram of a <i>tabula</i> game played in 480 circa by Eastern Roman Emperor <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Flavius_Zeno" title="Flavius Zeno">Zeno</a>. The game, whose mechanics is similar to <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Backgammon" class="mw-redirect" title="Backgammon">backgammon</a>, is noteworthy because the Emperor had a very unlucky result and the situation was recorded in an epigram by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Agathias&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Agathias (page does not exist)">Agathias</a>. Zeno drew 2, 5 and 6 on his dices, and he was forced to move one piece from XX to XXII, one from XVIIII to XXIIII and one from X to XVI (Robert Charles Bell, <i>Board and table games from many civilizations</i>, Courier Dover Publications, 1979, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0486238555" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 0486238555</a>, pp. 33-35). |
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