chessboard pattern
The depiction of multiple human figures on stelae in rectangular sectors separated by a grid of lines (called the chessboard pattern) is attested from the reign of Senusret III onward.
- Date:
- Late Middle Kingdom - Second Intermediate Period
- Bibliography:
- Evers 1929a, 103; Ilin-Tomich 2017, 5; Pflüger 1947, 132-133