CHKSS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 



825 



iiud Oat. No. 1^78 with aii octagoiuil brass placMiiie (li^'. 140), o^ inches in 

 diameter, with six concentric and thirty-two radial divisions having the 

 uames of as many oriental cities in the outer row, of conditions of life 

 and fortune in the next inner, and personal names in the third row. 



13. Pasa. Long dice.' Lucknow, India. 



Square ivory jnisms, about 2 inches in length, maiked with one, two, 

 six, and five spots in concentric circles. The one and six and two and 



Fig. 145. 



BRASS PLACQUE ACCOMPANYI.VO DKE FOR FOKTUNETEU.INO. 



Diameter, 3J inches. 

 Persia. 



Cat. No. 283. SomnitTville collectiim. Mnspuni nf A rcliwolofiy, University of 

 Pennsylvania. 



five are opposite, and the two and five are red. Used in the game of 

 Chausar (No. 40). A similar die was used in Chaturamja or "Dice 



Chess" (No. 45).--' 



' Cat. No. 7133, Mns. Arch., Univ. Penn. 



-On the Hradischt near Stradonitz in Bohemia, which is referred to La Tene 

 period, several hundred longisii stick-dice, niarlvcd with .concentric circles (dice 

 eyes), were found (fig. 147). Of the four longer faces, two opposite ones are broader 

 than the two others. The ends are plain, while the long sides are marked three, 

 four, five, six, so that the broader faces have three, four, and the narrower ones 

 five, six. (Osborne in Mitteil. des Anthropol. Ges., Wieii, X, p. 2r)o, quoted from Eth- 

 nographische Parallelen und Vergleiche, Richard Andree, Leipzig, 1889, II, p. 104). 

 In commenting upon the altove find, Osborne states that in North (ierniau, Holstein, 

 and Danish finds tiu-se stick-dice also appear. These latter are similar to those of 

 Hradischt, but are to l)e distinguished from them, however, l)y the markings, as 

 they 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, after numerous in- 

 quiries (in Germany, Holstein, Denmark, and Switzerland), if at any other i)lace 

 entirely similar dice to those found in the Hradischt had been discovered, he received 



