ROMAN COUNTERS:
1054
ROMAN COUNTER OR THEATRE TICKET
I-II centuries A.D.
Bone disc with lightly incised ring with a dot in the center. On the other face the incised signs: XXL and three short wide lines below. H. 4 mm; D. 23 mm.
Similar bone discs with inscription: XIII I? in Egyptian Museum at Cairo; with inscription: III I? has been published in Corinth, X, The Odeum, p.141 and Davidson G.R. Corinth, vol XII, The Minor Objects. Princeton, 1952, p. 219; three plain discs with inscription: VIII H and IIII ? and VIII PA in Peters B. G. Processing of bone in Ancient States of Black Sea. Moscow, 1986, tbl. XVIII.
$ 300
1053
Roman bone counter
I-IV centuries A.D.
H. 3 mm; D. 18 mm
$ 100
1055
Roman bone counter
I-IV centuries A.D.
H. 6 mm; D. 31 mm
$ 100
1056
Roman bone counter
I-IV centuries A.D.
H. 8 mm; D. 18 mm
$ 75
1057
Roman bone counter
I-IV centuries A.D.
H. 5 mm; D. 20 mm
$ 75
BYZANTINE COUNTERS:
1066
Horn counter
IX-XI centuries A.D. SOLD
1067
Bone counter
IX-XI centuries A.D. SOLD
1068
Bone counter
IX-XI centuries A.D.
H. 4 mm; L. 11 mm
$ 50
1070
Bone counter
IX-XI centuries A.D.
H. 6 mm; L. 14 mm
$ 75
1069
Bone counter
IX-XI centuries A.D.
H. 5 mm; L. 10 mm
$ 25
1039
Byzantine bone counter
IX-XI centuries A.D.
H. 5 mm; D. 15 mm
$ 75
1040
Byzantine bone counter
IX-XI centuries A.D.
H. 6 mm; D. 18 mm
$ 100
1051
Byzantine bone counter
IX-XI centuries A.D.
H. 5 mm; D. 23 mm
$ 125
1041
Byzantine bone counter
IX-XI centuries A.D.
H. 5 mm; D. 26 mm
$ 200
1052
Byzantine bone counter
IX-XI centuries A.D.
H. 6 mm; D. 24 mm
$ 1 25
1044
Byzantine bone counter
IX-XI centuries A.D.
H. 8 mm; D. 27 mm
$ 125
1049
Byzantine bone counter
IX-XI centuries A.D. SOLD
1043
Byzantine bone counter
IX-XI centuries A.D.
H. 7 mm; D. 28 mm
$ 250
1047
Byzantine bone counter
IX-XI centuries A.D.
H. 8 mm; D. 25 mm
$ 150
1048
Byzantine bone counter
IX-XI centuries A.D.
Intact, H. 5 mm; D. 23 mm
$ 150
1046
Byzantine bone counter
IX-XI centuries A.D. SOLD
1050
Byzantine bone counter
IX-XI centuries A.D.
H. 4 mm; D. 27 mm
$ 75
1045
Byzantine ivory counter
IX-XI centuries A.D.
H. 5 mm; D. 19 mm
$ 150
1042
Byzantine bone counter
IX-XI centuries A.D.
H. 4 mm; D. 26 mm
$ 75
ROMAN DICE:
Pausanias stated that ancient Greeks played dice since the Trojan War. Tessera had numbers on each side from 1 to 6. In Roman times and later, values placed on opposite sides add up to seven. Talus had only four numbered sides: 1, 3, 4, 6. The best throw was venus: all four tali fall to expose different numbers; the worse throw was canis when all exposed numbers are the same.
See: Paus., II, 20,3; X,31,1; Aeschin. Contra Timarch., 59; Robinson, Excavation at Olyntus, X, p. 504, note 78; Suet. Aug., 71 1-4; Amm. Marc., XXVII, 4, 28; Daremberg and Saglio, Dictionnaire, svv. Ludi, Latrunculi, Tessera; Pauly-Wissova, Realencyklopädie, s.v. Lusoria Tabula; Peters B. G. Processing of bone in Ancient States of Black Sea. Moscow, 1986, p. 88-90, tbl. XIX.
1059
Greek Bone die
IV-II century B.C. SOLD
1062
Roman ivory die
I-IV century A.D.
Opposite side's values: 6-1; 5-2; 0-3
One side is blank 10 x 10 x 10 mm
$ 250
1060
Roman ivory die
I-II century A.D. SOLD
1064
Roman ivory die
I-II century A.D. SOLD
1063
Roman bone die
I-II century A.D. SOLD
1061
Roman bone die
I-IV century A.D.
Opposite side's values: 6-1; 5-2; 4-3
12 x 9 x 9 mm
$ 200
1065
Bone die
Blank sides
11 x 12 x 11 mm
$ 75