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Roman Gambling Dice
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Roman Bone Gaming Dice

ancient bronze bone Roman legionary legionnaire dice for saleDice such as these were carried all across the Roman Empire by traveling, marching legionnaires during the 1st to 3rd centuries AD.

After a long, hard day of toil and misery soldiers would congregate rowdily around fires, and in taverns, drinking and playing games of chance with their dice.

Each of these dice were hand carved from a single piece of animal bone, and made small enough to be carried in the mouth, if need be. They were discovered at a Roman military encampment near the Danube River in Eastern Europe. Check for availability
Beautiful emerald-green bone die. 1st-3rd century AD. Unfortunately the exact one is not photographed but it is nearly identical, as the missing pair to, the one pictured here. 10x9x10 mm. $125
Large ivory die #61: Measures 11 mm (almost 1/2 inch!) across. A bit of damage on a couple sides (shown). $100
Nice Roman lead die dating from the 1st-2nd century AD. Measures 13x13x10 mm. Very interesting type--hand-made on the Roman frontier. #234: $75

Amazing carved bone die with interesting blue-green marbeling. A great legionary piece from the 4th-5th century AD. A large specimen at 13 cubic mm. #441: SOLD
Late Roman North Africa / Coptic Egypt
4th-8th century AD.
Long carved-bone "stick dice". Each measures 88 mm (almost 3 1/2 inches) long. Beautiful and rare! Nearly impossible to find an intact group of three. Discovered in Lower egypt in the 1920's.
Ex-old Los Angeles collection. #1a5a: $425/3
Occasionally I have pairs of small bone dice.
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