Roman bone gaming dice - tesserae

1st-3rd century AD

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Dice such as this were widely used throughout the Roman Empire not only for games of chance and strategy, but also for divination, reflecting the deep cultural fascination with fortune and fate.

The Romans were very fond of playing with dice and various dice games were frequently played in taverns, military camps, streets and palaces. Several Roman emperors like Caligula and Commodus are known to have been inveterate players. A now-lost book 'De arte alae' (on the art of dice) was written by the Roman Emperor Claudius.