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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