A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 217
(Kertch) in the Crimea, probably belongedto some game analogous to our draughts. An interesting set of 1 Cf. Anth. Pa1, xiv. 8 : e$, ev, rrevTe, dvo, rpla, Te(r<rapa Kvfios eXavpei. 2 Aesch., Arjam. 32 : to 8e(T7ToToov yap ev nea-uvTa Orjaopai,rpis e£ &akov(TT]S Trjabe pot (ppvKTcopias. 3… … •206 GREEK AND RCMAN LIFE. pieces is that of the ivory discs (No. 630 ; fig. 245), which bear ontheir obverse a design in relief e.g. two Muses and the head of theSun-god, and on their reverse a number, from 1 to 15, in both Greekand Latin figures, as well as a word descriptive of the design on the…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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