Monkey Shaped Game Piece

3rd-1st century BC (Greco-Roman)

1.1 cm 2.8 cm 0.9 cm

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This monkey, seated, with its right paw supporting its head, left paw on the genitals, is carefully designed to look as through it had been carved from an astragal (knucklebone). The prototypes for such objects were undoubtedly made from real astragals. The shape and posture o...

Artifact

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11743
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object
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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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6
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