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Description: | A twelve-sided polyhedral dice. The dice is made from cast copper-alloy. Each of its faces are inscribed with Roman numerals. Each of the numerals are finished with a punched dot at each end. The dice measures 22.8 mm from one parallel face to another.
No exact parallels have been found, but it seems likely that the dice is medieval to post-medieval in date. The execution of the numerals do not appear Roman in style. Examples of bone dice are well known from medieval and post-medieval contexts (Egan 1998 291; 953, 954: Margeson 1993, 216; 1767-1769 ), although copper-alloy dice with Roman numerals do not appear to be common. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1100
1700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Tom Brindle | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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