Set of twelve red terracotta balls Etruscan late 4th or early 3rd century BCE These terracotta balls may be game tokens. Based on only a few representations of people seated at a table with some sort of game board, they could have been used in a game resembling checkers or backgammon. Various gaming pieces, especially pairs of dice, were often part of Etruscan tomb furnishings.

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