Unfinished Dice

1st-3rd century (Roman Imperial) H: 2 3/8 in. (6 cm) Citation Source image

This length of bone has been worked into a rectangular form and marked off with three dice. The numbers are indicated by dotted circles. Only three sides of the piece have been finished. Eventually the dice would have been separated, the natural hollows of the bone plugged by...

Artifact

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19332
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object
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normalized
provenance
provenance
William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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1
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Terms

Culture
Roman
Medium
bone
Genre
dice

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