Roman Dice Tower
Posted: Thu May 24, 2018 9:10 pm
Courtesy of Bloodbeard, who shared this piece of news:
[quote=Archaeologist Ticia Verveer]A Roman throwing tower found at Vettweiß-Froitz-heim in Germany. The sides have been worked open, so that the players could see the dice rolling. Invented to prevent cheating. Text on the back reads: utere felix vivas ('use it and live as a lucky man').
4th century
On the front it says Pictos victos hostis deleta ludite securi ('The Picts have been defeated, the enemy destroyed, play carefree').
The text refers to a Roman victory over the Picts in Scotland, north of Roman Britannia.
At LVR Museum, Bonn, Germany http://www.landesmuseum-bonn.lvr.de/en/startseite.html
https://www.wissenschaft.de/magazin/wei ... im-museum/[/quote]
[quote=Archaeologist Ticia Verveer]A Roman throwing tower found at Vettweiß-Froitz-heim in Germany. The sides have been worked open, so that the players could see the dice rolling. Invented to prevent cheating. Text on the back reads: utere felix vivas ('use it and live as a lucky man').
4th century
On the front it says Pictos victos hostis deleta ludite securi ('The Picts have been defeated, the enemy destroyed, play carefree').
The text refers to a Roman victory over the Picts in Scotland, north of Roman Britannia.
At LVR Museum, Bonn, Germany http://www.landesmuseum-bonn.lvr.de/en/startseite.html
https://www.wissenschaft.de/magazin/wei ... im-museum/[/quote]