#1 - Queen Nefertari Playing Senet

Reference number - 30.4.145
ca. 1279–1213 B.C. - Original New Kingdom, Ramesside

From the Metropolitan website (text by Nina de Garis Davies)

“… This facsimile copies of one of the paintings from Nefertari's tomb. In this vignette, the queen sits in front of a table playing a game of senet again an invisible opponent. This was a popular game in life, but when represented in a tomb, as here, it has symbolic meaning. The word senet means "passing" and the game was seen as a parallel to the journey into the afterlife and the obstacles one had to overcome on the way. …”