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© Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Girona
Omeka ID 3169
Empúries

tessera lusoria

MAC GIR-002638

Object type
tessera lusoria
Production date
-200 / -1
Fabric
-
Museum
Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Girona
Culture
-
Discovery location
Empúries
Materials
bone
Township
Escala, l' (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Girona, Alt Empordà)
Technique
polishing
Where is it?
MASPG
Dimensions
55 x 10 x 6 mm
Description
Roman game token from Empúries (l'Escala, Alt Empordà) dated in the 2nd-1st centuries BC. It is a bone plate about 5.5 cm long, 1 cm wide and 0.5 thick. On one side is the number XXI and the other the adjective AVDAX (audacious). At one end is a hole that allowed it to be tied to other similar pieces. At present, the various researchers who have studied the “tesserae lusoriae” agree mostly that they were game tokens, but they do not agree on what game it was, of the many that are known from Roman times based on written sources and archaeological finds.

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