Mária T. Biró: The Bone Objects of the Roman Collection. (Catalogi Musei Nationalis Hungarici. Seria Archeologica 2; Budapest, 1994)

VII. THE SPREAD OF USING WRITTEN RECORDS — WRITING AND COUNTING IMPLEMENTS MADE OF BONE - 2. Styli - 3. Counting discs (calculi)

neck of the disc. Similar bone plates were of course used for other purposes as well. In Italy there are such bone plates where the name of the consuls in office were on one side and on the other side the name of a gladiator. (Fig. 29.) We also know that games of hazard were also played with similar plates; in this case certain key-words were carved into the bone lamellae.

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