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Historical Archive: Roman Antler, Bone, Chalk, Ivory, Shell, and Wood
For a list of game pieces not yet digitized, see Game pieces.

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chalk figure fr. East Riding, 1st c. BCE/CE, Malton; for profile view see Malton
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Hercules and the Cretan bull, ivory, probably 1st c. CE, BM 1814/7-4/1652
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ornaments from a nymphaeum, glass/shells/stucco, 1st c., ANAM, which have their own page
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Roman antler ring with phallus, c. 43-100, from Rangoon St. London, oblique, MoL RAG82[1156]<90>. For another view see MoL.
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hair pin with vegetal top from Gournay, antler, 2nd c., Chelles
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scallop shells embedded in a wall fragment, late 2nd to early 3rd c., Musée Carnavalet Paris
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victorious charioteers, tortoise-shell reliefs, 3rd c., RLM
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victorious charioteers, tortoise-shell reliefs, 3rd c., RLM
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ivory terminal: boat, sailors; 3rd-4th c., Vat 62588
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nereid riding hippocamp, bone, 3rd-5th c., KHM X 293
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doll, bone, Italy?, c.250-75 AD, Louvre MNE 191
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hair pin with human head, bone?, 4th c., Chelles
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circus scenes, tinted ivory diptych, c.400, Louvre OA 9062
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Asklepios and Hygeia ivory, 5th c., Liverpool museum
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Muses, ivory diptych, 5th c., Louvre LP 1264
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Muses, ivory diptych, 5th c., Louvre LP 1264
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Muses, ivory diptych, 5th c., Louvre LP 1264
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Muses, ivory diptych, 5th c., Louvre LP 1264
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life of Dionysus, ivory pyxis, 5th c., Bologna pcr 12, which has its own page
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Symmachorum ivory, late 4th to early 5th c., V&A 212-1865, which has its own page
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priestess at altar of Cybele (Nicomachorum ivory), early 5th c., Cluny Cl.17048. This work has its own page.
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Constantinople, ivory, 5th-6th c., KHM X 38, which has its own page with companion panel
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Rome, ivory, 5th-6th c., KHM X 37, which has its own page with companion panel
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Bacchus and Ariadne, ivory pyxis, 5th-6th c., Trier? KHM X41, which has its own page
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circus scenes, ivory diptych, 2nd half of 5th c., Hermitage
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circus scenes, ivory diptych, 2nd half of 5th c., Hermitage
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ivory medicine box converted to reliquary, Asclepius and Hygeia, late 5th c., VHM, loan from Sion CT. This work has its own page.
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ivory disk game piece with sea beasts, reverse numbered XV and Iε, CdM Froehner 238
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rabbit or hare crouching facing R, numbered I, Roman ivory or bone game piece, CdM Froehner 97
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tessera/game piece, prob. Roman ivory, Vat
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antler ring, Musée Carnavalet Paris
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Roman dolphin pendant, bone, MStA 1978.474. For other views see MStA.