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ردیف دوازده
The obverse of the tablet is inscribed with a zodiacal divinatory diagram, and one would be tempted to interpret the five birds of the game and its central row of twelve squares in an astrological context.
By depicting four curling snakes comparable to the 20-square boards from Šahr-e Suḵta, it shows three parallel rows of twelve (two groups of six) circular fields.
The arrangement of the fields is similar to that of the backgammon board, with the exception that while the backgammon board has two rows of twelve fields at its two sides, the board from Jiroft has three such rows; the rows are interrupted in the middle to form two blocks of six fields on each side.
Thus the structure of the board with its three rows of twelve fields divided in the middle into groups of six is identical to the Roman boards of a much later date for a game of the backgammon type, which was called "the (game of) 12 points" in Republican and early Imperial times, and simply "dice" in later Roman times.
The new finds from Jiroft testify to the fact that important characteristics of the backgammon board (rows of twelve cells divided into groups of six) had already been present around 2000 BCE.
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