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ROMAN DICE
Christie’s, auctioneer to the rich and famous, sold a glass d20 from Roman times for just under $18,000. It was included in a collection of other antiquities that sold in 2003. The markings on the die don’t appear to be either Arabic or Roman numerals, but it’s probably a safe bet that it was either used in a game of chance or for divination. As the auction catalog notes that several polyhedral dice are known from the Roman era, but remarks, ” Modern scholarship has not yet established the game for which these dice were used.” The seller, a Marylands University Professor, acquired this die from his father, who picked it up in the 1920s in Egypt
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