Playing piece
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
circa 100 AD
Materials
Bone
Measurements
64 mm (length)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 670706
Summary
A rectangular gaming piece made of bone or ivory, decorated at each end with three incised lines round the entire piece. (circa 100 AD). At each end on the face of the piece are three circles in the shape of a triangle, on one side at each end is a circle, on the other side at each end are two circles and one circle in the centre, and on the remaining side is one circle in the middle.