|
Date: |
|
Description: | Polygonal stone gaming piece, in the form of a cube with faceted side edges. Each square face has a pair of engraved letters: ND, SZ, LS, TA, NH and NG. On the faceted faces are varying numbers of dot and circle motifs, from one to twelve. This appears to be a game of chance popular in the eighteenth century, known as a teetotum. Such objects were sometimes spun but the earliest took this form. The letters relate to Latin instructions to pick up or put down from the pool. (See Encyclopaedia Britannica eleventh edition 1910-11, 503-4).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
|
|