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Class
- Leisure and Gaming
Material
- Stone

DefinitionGameboard
Materialmarble
Dimensions30 x 20 cm, th. 4 cm.
DescriptionSlab with raised edge, perhaps a threshold. On it are scratched a rough grid of orthogonal lines forming a grid, across which diagonal lines are scratched. The pattern of the grid may be a gameboard for tris or filetto.
State of Conservationbroken on three sides.
ComparandaBianchi 2003, pp 456-63 (second half of the 15th century)

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Area
- Area A/F/G (Winery)

Context VM_1052
- Definitionpreparazione pavimentale in lastre di marmo nel margine N del saggio

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Fentress, E., Goodson, C., Maiuro, M., Andrews, M., Dufton, J.A. (eds.) 2016. Villa Magna: an Imperial Estate and its Legacies. Excavations 2006–2010. British School at Rome, Rome.

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