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Collection of gaming dices1st – 3rd century AD

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Collection of gaming dices
1st – 3rd century AD
height max cm 2,4 (0,9’’)
Composed of two in amber stone, four bones ring-pipped dices, three in bronze and the smallest one in green glass paste. Most of them have numbers arranged so that opposite sides add up to seven.

Dice gaming was popular throughout antiquity and in some cities in Roman provinces dices oracles were used to gain advices from the gods.

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English private collection.
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