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|Headline=Was Egypt the Well-Spring of Ballplaying? Text Has “Strike the Ball” Reference
|Year=-2400
|Year=-2400
|Year Suffix=c
|Year Suffix=c
|Is in main chronology=yes
|Year Number=1
|Text=<p>“The earliest known references to <em>seker-hemat</em> (translation: “batting the ball”) as a fertility rite and ritual of renewal are inscribed in pyramids dating to 2400 BC.”  Egyptologist Peter Piccione reads Pyramid Texts Spell 254 as commanding a pharaoh to cross the heavens and “strike the ball” in the meadow of the sacred Apis bull.</p>
|Headline=Was Egypt the Well-Spring of Ballplaying? Text Has &#8220;Strike the Ball&#8221; Reference
<p>Piccione, Peter, “Pharaoh at the Bat,” <span style="text-decoration: underline;">College</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> of Charlestown Magazine</span> (Spring/Summer 2003), p.36.  From a clipping in the Giamatti Center’s “Origins” file in Cooperstown. </p>
|Salience=2
<p>Piccione’s reading seems consistent with Robert Henderson’s identification of ancient Egypt as the source of ballplaying: “It is the purpose of this book to show that all modern games played with bat and ball descend from one common source: an ancient fertility rite observed by Priest –Kings in the Egypt of the Pyramids.”</p>
|Country=Egypt
<p>Henderson, Robert W.,<strong> </strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</span> [Rockport Press, 1947], page 4.</p>
|Game=Sekar-hemat
<p><strong>Caution:</strong>  David Block [<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, page 303 (note 1)] writes that Piccione’s identification of <em>seker-hemat </em>with baseball is “apparently speculative in nature.”</p>
|Immediacy of Report=Retrospective
<p><strong>Query:</strong>  It would be good to confirm details in an academic source and to see whether Egyptologists have any other interpretations of this text – and how Egyptian rites employed the ball as a symbol of fertility. </p>
|Text=<p>[A]&ldquo;The earliest known references to <em>seker-hemat</em> (translation: &ldquo;batting the ball&rdquo;) as a fertility rite and ritual of renewal are inscribed in pyramids dating to 2400 BC.&rdquo;&nbsp; Egyptologist Peter Piccione reads Pyramid Texts Spell 254 as commanding a pharaoh to cross the heavens and &ldquo;strike the ball&rdquo; in the meadow of the sacred Apis bull.</p>
<p>[B]Piccione&rsquo;s reading seems consistent with Robert Henderson&rsquo;s identification of ancient Egypt as the source of ballplaying:&nbsp;&ldquo;It is the purpose of this book to show that all modern games played with bat and ball descend from one common source: an ancient fertility rite observed by Priest&ndash;Kings in the Egypt of the Pyramids.&rdquo;</p>
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|Sources=<p>[A] Piccione, Peter, &ldquo;Pharaoh at the Bat,&rdquo; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">College</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> of Charlestown Magazine</span>(Spring/Summer 2003), p.36.&nbsp; From a clipping in the Giamatti Center&rsquo;s &ldquo;Origins&rdquo; file in Cooperstown.&nbsp;</p>
<p>[B]Henderson, Robert W.,<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</span> [Rockport Press, 1947], page 4.</p>
|Comment=<p>David Block [<span>Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, page 303 (note 1)] writes that Piccione&rsquo;s identification of&nbsp;<em>seker-hemat&nbsp;</em>with baseball is &ldquo;apparently speculative in nature.&rdquo;</p>
|Query=<p>It would be good to confirm details in an academic source and to see whether Egyptologists have any other interpretations of this text &ndash; and how Egyptian rites employed the ball as a symbol of fertility.&nbsp;</p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Has Supplemental Text=No
|Coordinates=26.820553, 30.802498
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Was Egypt the Well-Spring of Ballplaying? Text Has “Strike the Ball” Reference

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[A]“The earliest known references to seker-hemat (translation: “batting the ball”) as a fertility rite and ritual of renewal are inscribed in pyramids dating to 2400 BC.”  Egyptologist Peter Piccione reads Pyramid Texts Spell 254 as commanding a pharaoh to cross the heavens and “strike the ball” in the meadow of the sacred Apis bull.

[B]Piccione’s reading seems consistent with Robert Henderson’s identification of ancient Egypt as the source of ballplaying: “It is the purpose of this book to show that all modern games played with bat and ball descend from one common source: an ancient fertility rite observed by Priest–Kings in the Egypt of the Pyramids.”

 

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[A] Piccione, Peter, “Pharaoh at the Bat,” College of Charlestown Magazine(Spring/Summer 2003), p.36.  From a clipping in the Giamatti Center’s “Origins” file in Cooperstown. 

[B]Henderson, Robert W.,Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games [Rockport Press, 1947], page 4.

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David Block [Baseball Before We Knew It, page 303 (note 1)] writes that Piccione’s identification of seker-hemat with baseball is “apparently speculative in nature.”

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It would be good to confirm details in an academic source and to see whether Egyptologists have any other interpretations of this text – and how Egyptian rites employed the ball as a symbol of fertility. 

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