Description : his object was discovered broken in the bottom of a waste pit. The wooden table had almost completely disappeared, but most of the veneer had been preserved, thus allowing archaeologists to propose the present reconstruction. On a wooden table, twenty-four points sculpted from cow or horse bones are set in a bone frame that featured a central divider. This ancestor of the modern game of backgammon is one of the oldest known specimens in France of what was called jeu de tables in the Middle Ages. We do not know the rules or how play progressed, but we do know that, like in backgammon, the game was played with dice and fifteen black and fifteen white game pieces. In the Middle Ages, jeu de tables was a parlor game in which calculation and strategy played a large part. Knowing how to play was part of the education of a cultivated person.