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These terracotta balls may be game tokens. Based on only a few representations of people seated at a table with some sort of game board, they could have been used in a game resembling checkers or backgammon. Various gaming pieces, especially pairs of dice, were often part of Etruscan tomb furnishings.
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Title: Set of twelve red terracotta balls
Period: Late Classical or Hellenistic
Date: late 4th or early 3rd century BCE
Culture: Etruscan
Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions: greatest diameter 1 in. (2.5 cm)
Classification: Terracottas
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1903
Object Number: 03.24.30
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