Lion and gazelle playing a board game
About the work
Imported from the workbook's Full reassessment sheet, revised 7 October 2026 (record ID 9). The assessment below is the workbook's comparative judgment under its stated criteria; source links and limits are retained.
Workbook assessment: Plausible
Date or witness: Approximately 1250–1150 BCE
Region: Egypt
Workbook date-sort bounds: 1250 BCE to 1150 BCE; these bounds are not automatically invention or disappearance dates.
Description
On the same BM satirical papyrus, predator and prey sit opposite each other at a board game.
Evidence of adoption or transmission
The board-game scene shares the animal-human inversion repertoire.
What remains uncertain
A single surviving panel does not establish spread of this exact design; retain within grouped animal-inversion tradition.
Candidate-index family 8: Animal role reversals in Egyptian artisans’ visual culture
The workbook groups records 6–11 here and rates the family Plausible. This is a research shortlist, not proof of an independently established meme family.
Dated evidence: c.1292–1077 BCE; individual witnesses have narrower dates
Region: Deir el-Medina / Thebes, Egypt
Shortlist uncertainty: One related visual family. Artisans’ settlement context is documented; use, meaning and independent circulation remain partly inferred.
Workbook revision note: Reassessed using grassroots criteria