Crouching Women Playing Knucklebones

ca. 330-100 BC (Hellenistic)

10.7 cm 14.5 cm 6.7 cm

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The maidens are playing an ancient form of jacks, known as "astragalus" (knucklebones), a game in which five small animal bones were tossed into the air and caught on the back of the hand. The grouping of separate statuettes is almost unknown before Hellenistic times, when art...

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Hirsch Sale, June 30-July 2, 1921, no. 132; Arthur Sambon, Paris (?), 1924; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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