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Roman Dice
This mosaic from Tunisia illustrates three men sitting at a table playing a game of dice.
Roman dice were "tesserae" (plural). They were largely used for gambling, which was later madeillegal, except during the Saturnalia festival.In Roman literature it is generally frowned upon as an immoral activity associated with drinkingand violent arguments.It would appear, however, from the large number of dice found , that both the law and thismoralising attitude were ignored by many inhabitants.Whilst most are what we would consider nowadays to be normal dice shapes, they actually comein lots of different shapes - and are made from a number of different materials, such as bone,lead, stone, marble, crystal as seen in the examples below
 
 
Lead Dice
This lead dice was found by detectorist Dave Ollis in the UK
Bone Dice
 
 
Flat Bone DiceCrystal Dice
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