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ROMAN COUNTER OR THEATRE TICKET

$300.00

I-II centuries A.D.

Bone disc with lightly incised ring with a dot in the center. On the other face the incised signs: XXL and three short wide lines below. H. 4 mm; D. 23 mm.
Similar bone discs with inscription: XIII I? in Egyptian Museum at Cairo; with inscription: III I? has been published in Corinth, X, The Odeum, p.141 and Davidson G.R. Corinth, vol XII, The Minor Objects. Princeton, 1952, p. 219; three plain discs with inscription: VIII H and IIII ? and VIII PA in Peters B. G. Processing of bone in Ancient States of Black Sea. Moscow, 1986, tbl. XVIII.

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