Tesserae lusoriae in Hispania

• Main Author: Francisco Germán RODRÍGUEZ MARTÍN
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2016-07-01
• Series: Zephyrus
• Subjects: hueso trabajado; juego romano; fichas de juego; inscripción; hallazgos mediterráneos
• Online Access: https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/0514-7336/article/view/14870

The known ones as <em>tesserae lusoriae</em> are objects that have received little attention on the part of the Hispanic investigators. Most of the works have boarded its study in a tangential and isolated way. Through the pieces picked up in the Roman world, several models can be distinguished. In this work we approached the group that counts on a greater number of units. One is a small group of cards realized in bone, and rarely in ivory, of rectangular body, which end in one of their ends in a perforated circular appendix. In one of the faces there is an engraving number and in the opposite face there are expressions some of them crude and other benevolent ones. For the moment it is not known which was its concrete function; in fact, diverse hypotheses have considered on the utility of these objects. The majority of the investigators consider that they must be related to some type of game of which we still do not know the rules.