. Chess and playing cards. Latter are similar to those ofHradischt. but arc; to be distinguished from them, however. i».\ the markings, asthey mostly only have the spots on the three long sides (with the numbers three, four,and six), leaving the fourth side unmarked. He continues that, alter numerous in-quiries (in Germany, Holstein, Denmark, and Switzerland). if at any other placeentirely similar dice to those found in the Hradischt had been discovered, he received 826 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 1 regard these long dice as the more or less direct outcome of thedivining staves. 14. Astra
. Chess and playing cards. Latter are similar to those ofHradischt. but arc; to be distinguished from them, however. i».\ the markings, asthey mostly only have the spots on the three long sides (with the numbers three, four,and six), leaving the fourth side unmarked. He continues that, alter numerous in-quiries (in Germany, Holstein, Denmark, and Switzerland). if at any other placeentirely similar dice to those found in the Hradischt had been discovered, he received 826 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 1 regard these long dice as the more or less direct outcome of thedivining staves. 14. Astragali (Tali). Knuckle Natural bones from theankle of a sheep. Used as dice by the Greeks and Romans, and in common use at thepresent day for the same purpose in the Mohammedan East and inSouthern Europe and Spanish America. Knuckle bones have been used as implements in games from remoteantiquity. There are several distinct ways in which they are thusemployed. One was as jackstones, described by classical authors as. Fig. 146. BRASS FLACQUE ACCOMPAXYING DICE FOR FORTUNE-TELLIXG. Diameter, 3£ Cat. No. 2s, Museum of Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania. Sommervillecollection. played principally by women and children with five bones, the samenumber employed in modern Among the Syrians at the presentday they are used by children in games resembling marbles, being-knocked from a ring drawn on the ground with others, which are some-times weighted with A favorite and almost universal use ofknuckle hones in games was as dice in games of chance. Among the a negative answer, except from the museum at Biel (Canton Berne), in which arepart of the materials of La Tene. This pile dwelling has furnished two stick-dicethat entirely correspond with those from Hradischt. 1 Cat. No. 152546, Gift of Stewart Culin. - Used ;it the present day by French children under the name of osselets. art Culin, .Syrian games with Knuckle-bones, Pro. Num. and Ant
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