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Another game of a similar nature was played with the so-called astragaloi, dice of a lengthy shape made of the knuckles of animals.
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Of larger representations we mention the marble statue of a girl playing with astragaloi in the Berlin Museum, and a Pompeian wall-painting in which the children of Jason play the same game, while
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Games of hazard with dice and astragaloi were most likely greater favorites with the topers than the intellectual ones hitherto described.
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Young girls liked to play at a game with five astragaloi, or little stones, which were thrown into the air and caught on the upper surface of the hand.
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The number of astragaloi used was always four, being the same as in the game of dice.
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The celebrated masterpiece of Polykletes, representing two boys playing with astragaloi, formerly in the palace of Titus in Rome, has unfortunately been lost.
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The figures 2 and 5 were wanting on the astragaloi, the narrow end-surfaces not being counted.
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[1687] The kuboi were marked on all six sides, the astragaloi on only four, the ends being rounded.
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But this worthy lived in the times of the Trojan war, and yet Homer makes no mention of dice -- the astragaloi named by the poet being merely knuckle-bones.
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