Mancala players at Palmyra

Antiquity

Volumn 84, Issue 326, 2010, Pages 1055-1066

  De Voogt, Alex ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Board games; Graffiti; Levant; Mancala; Ottoman; Palmyra; Seventh century AD Arab; Third century AD Roman

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649771187     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00067077     Document Type: Article

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