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1914.05.0163

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Artifact Identification Die   (1914.05.0163)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Recreational Artifacts
    2. :
  2. Game Equipment
    3. :
  3. N/A
Artist/Maker Unknown
Geographic Location
Period N/A
Date 4th - 7th century CE
Culture Late Roman, Early Byzantine, Coptic, Egyptian
Location On Exhibitin the Ancient Mediterranean exhibit

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Height) 0.8 cm
Dimension 2 (Width) 0.8 cm
Dimension 3 (Depth) 0.7 cm
Weight 1 g
Measuring Remarks N/A
Materials Animal--Tooth--Ivory
Manufacturing Processes Carved

Research Remarks

Description

"Like catalogue number 142, these roughly cubical dice, two large and two small, are incised with dotted circles to mark the value of each surface. See Martin, pp. 42-43, fig. 59; Stryzgowski, pl. XX, 8944; and Petrie, 1927, pl. XLIX for similar examples."--Eunice Dauterman Maguire, Henry Maguire and Maggie J. Duncan-Flowers, Art and Holy Powers in the Early Christian House (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989), 227.

Published Description Under Review
Bibliography

James, T.G.H. Excavating in Egypt: The Egypt Exploration Society 1882-1982. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.

The British Museum. Antinoupolis at the British Museum Online Catalog. https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/research_projects/all_current_projects/antinoupolis.aspx

Griffith Institute Archives, University of Oxford. John de Monins Johnson photographic negatives. http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4johnson.html

Maguire, Eunice Dauterman, Henry Maguire and Maggie J. Duncan-Flowers. Art and Holy Powers in the Early Christian House. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.

Artifact History

Credit Line/Dedication Egypt Exploration Society
Reproduction no

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