Dice of bone, historical - small
Dice of bone, historical - small
Dice of bone, historical - small
Dice of bone, historical - small

Dice of bone, historical - small

The die is cast! Handmade and engraving with a special tool.

Kč88.00

Description

The feeling that luck or gods is with us is still desirable, even though we have already heard about some mathematical probability :)

What is certain is that the cubes have been entertaining people for several thousand years, and it doesn't matter if they were made of bone, antler, clay, ivory or marble and did not have to have the exact shape of a cube at all. Even today's distribution of the value of the cube (today the sum of the opposite sides is 7 - 6 against 1, 5 against 2 ..).

Did you know that gambling was so widespread in Norway in the Middle Ages that it was banned by the authorities at the time? The law of the 13th century even allowed royal officials to confiscate money at the tables and charge each player a fine of half a mark or 107 grams of silver.

Price for 1 piece

material: Cow bone

approx. 0,7 cm

Product Details

Period
Antiquity 4000 BC - 7th century AD.
Early Middle Ages 7th - 11th century AD.
High and Late Middle Ages 11th - 16th century AD.
Material
Cow bone
Culture
Celts
Christian faith
Slavs
The Great Moravia
Vikings
product characteristic
Each piece is original, thanks to handwork it can have variations in size or decoration.
KOS-002
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