Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 381
wearing her hair in a coif, are kneeling andplaying at knucklebones (aorpayaAoi, tali). They were usedas a rule, not as we use knucklebones nowadays, but as dice,the four sides on which the bone could rest being markedwith pips. They were thrown from a box or (as here) fromthe hand. Herodotus (i.… … ANTIQUITIES 331 404. Papyrus manuscript of Homer. In the British Museum. First century B.C. This is the famous Harris Papyrus of Homer, found inEgypt. The papyrus (TraTrvpos) is a water-plant which waslargely cultivated in Egypt, and paper was made out of thinstrips cut longitudinally from the stem…
Classical antiquities
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