How the excavation of Tutankhamen was reported by
The Illustrated London News 1929 - Ocober 5th
196. New treasures from Tutankhamen's tomb
Fourth Series - The Boy King's Gaming - Boards, Ostrich feather fans,
and Sceptre.
Accessories to Tutankhamen's gaming-board: Black and white throwing sticks
used like dice and having different values according to the manner of their fall.
197. Tutankhamen's "Chessboard": A Game of chance played with "Dice"
Fig. 2. With Ten pieces for each player, coloured black and white,
as in chess, some resembling chess pawns, but moved by "Dicing" with the two knuckle-bones
(here shown) and throwing sticks (illustrated above): one of the smaller
gaming boards from Tutankhamen's tomb- A prototype of the Arab game SEEGA
198. Tutankhamen's Ostrich feather fans, Like "Flabella"...
Fig. 1. Originally fringed with Ostrich feathers like the Flabella
borne in Papal processions at Rome: Two of Tutankhamen's
fan-handles-(left) ivory carved and stained; (right) Ebony veneered with bark
199. (double page with above) ...And a Sceptre: Relics of Pharaonic State.
Fig 3. Showing that the Flabellate tops of the fan-stocks held
Forty-Eight feathers, and resembled the frame of a modern folding fan:
One of Tutankhamen's Ostrich-feather fans in situ,
as found, among a pile of objects in the annexe