Just for something different, I thought I'd work on a Senet board with a built-in drawer. Many of the recovered Senet games have a drawer on one of the box ends. I came across a picture a while ago of a 20 Squares board with a drawer on one of the halves of the long side of the box, which I found incredibly interesting, if only because it was so different from the other, more 'common' boxes. Anyway, this undecorated box is my first attempt at executing a similar design. Still needs to be stained, painted, and sealed, and I also want to fix a suitable handle to the drawer.
Here's a picture of the original 20 Squares board, which dates back to the Egyptian New Kingdom.
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