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Gaming Die
Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara) or Afghanistan
1st–3rd century
Glass die
Roman
1st–2nd century CE
Game Box for Playing Senet and Twenty Squares
ca. 1635–1458 B.C.
Twenty-sided die (icosahedron) with faces inscribed with Greek letters
2nd century B.C.–4th century A.D.
Twenty-sided die (icosahedron) with faces inscribed with Greek letters
2nd century B.C.–4th century A.D.
Triompho di Fortuna
Sigismundo Fanti
January 1526
Twenty-sided die (icosahedron) with faces inscribed with Greek letters
2nd century B.C.–4th century A.D.
Louis Gueymard (1822–1880) as Robert le Diable
Gustave Courbet
1857
Glass astragal (knucklebone)
Greek
3rd–2nd century BCE
Glass astragal (knucklebone)
Greek
3rd–2nd century BCE
Glass astragal (knucklebone)
Greek
3rd–2nd century BCE
Glass astragal (knucklebone)
Greek
3rd–2nd century BCE
Glass astragal (knucklebone)
Greek
3rd–2nd century BCE
Glass astragal (knucklebone)
Greek
3rd–2nd century BCE
Glass astragal (knucklebone)
Greek
3rd–2nd century BCE
Glass astragal (knucklebone)
Greek
3rd–2nd century BCE
Liubo Board and Pieces
China
1st century BCE–1st century CE
Weight in the Shape of Liubo Game Player
China
Weight in the Shape of Liubo Game Player
China
Weight in the Shape of Liubo Game Player
China
Weight in the Shape of Liubo Game Player
China
Pair of Seated Figures Playing Liubo
China
1st century BCE–1st century CE
Cylinder seal and modern impression: banquet scene with seated figures drinking a liquid through straws
Sumerian
ca. 2600–2350 BCE
Disc: die or gaming piece (?)
3rd–2nd millennium BCE
Study for the Equestrian Monument to Francesco Sforza
Antonio Pollaiuolo
early to mid 1480s
The Denial of Saint Peter
Ludovico Carracci
ca. 1616
Calyx-shaped nozzles or fixed measures used, according to the ancient commentary of Frontinus, for the regulation of water-flow, tavola 19 from "Le Rovine del Castello dell'Acqua Giulia situato in Roma presso S. Eusebio, e falsamente detto dell'Acqua Marcia colla dichiarazione di uno de celebri passi del commentario Frontinano e l'esposizione della maniera con cui gli antichi Romani distribuivano le acque per uso della città" (Ruins of the Fountainhead of the Acqua Giulia in Rome, near S. Eusebio and incorrectly called the Fountainhead of the Acqua Marcia, with a discussion of one of the celebrated passages from the commentary by Frontinus and an explanation of the manner in which the ancient Romans distributed the water for the use of the city)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1761
Plan of the cave embellished by the ancients on the bank of Lake Albano towards Marino..., tavola 3 from "Di due spelonche ornate dagli antichi alla Riva del Lago Albano" (concerning two caves embellished by the ancients on the bank of Lake Albano)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1762
Figure of an elephant, possibly a chessman
Sasanian
ca. 6th–7th century CE