Guttus in the shape of a knuckleboney, Formerly Johannes W. F. Collection Reimers (Hamburg), clay, hand-modeled, painted (ceramic), fired (ceramic), clay, painted and fired, Total: Height: cm; Width: cm, Ceramics, Places of worship and cult objects (Greek religion), Late Classicism (Greek antiquity), The finely modeled vessel in the shape of an ankle has a cylindrical cast tube with a protruding mouth and a handle with a central groove and Heracles knot. Knucklebones were used in a kind of dice game as well as in cultic contexts.

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