We’re back at the Museum of London again this week to finish the digitization of the Museum collection of Roman, and later, dice.
This is pretty much ‘more of the same’ except for one beauty at the end, so here they are.
Again, these dice have all be taken off display in the Museum for us to work on. They’re probably back on display by now.
I had another one very similar to this (below) last week.
And here’s a nice, but rather squat bone type 1 die.
I also had this very nice type 2 die. Unfortunately one of the plugs was missing from the 4 face, but otherwise, it was in very good condition.
We also created a record for this lovely jet (-like) die.
It’s in really good condition, the only damage being a chip out of one face. These black-material dice don’t scan well, as the edges tend to disappear into the background. This one will be photographed instead. We were all having a conversation about what the white substance in the pips might be; wax? clay? some wort of resin? Dunno, and we’re not going to scrape any out to get it tested, so it’ll just have to be a mystery for now.
Glynn was giving a paper at the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC) utilizing some of the objects that we’ve been working on, specifically the jet and amber pieces. I was attending the conference and can report that his paper went down very well. This lovely amber die, which I’ve been hiding this picture of since November, was a particular hit.
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