Game board

Fragment of ceramic tile/brick with pinkish paste and oxidative firing that served as a game board. It presents incisions on both sides, with an improvised nature. On both sides, the diagrams that delimit the three rooms connected by four axial lines can be perfectly observed. Three lines form squares of different sizes, which fit parallel to each other. Four lines perpendicular to the shapes described, emerging from the center of each side, reach only as far as the inner square.

Board game board called Quirkat, or alquerque de nine or mill. Two players with nine pieces each try to reach the "tic-tac-toe" position, eliminating the opponent's pieces until one of them is left with only two or cannot make any move.

On the corners and intersection points is where the pieces of each player are placed, in turn (or using the dice), in numbers of five, seven, nine or twelve depending on the type of game.
If we look at the location of the dice (00136 and 00303) and the alquerque boards (00137 and 00138) we see that there is no connection between them.

The game of alquerque was already known in Roman times and was also engraved on marble fragments.

According to Aranzazu Mendívil's research there are parallels in Toledo -Basque-, Cáceres -Al-Balât / Romangordo- from the first half of the 12th century, France in aristocratic contexts from the end of the 10th century to the beginning of the 12th century and Portugal.