Archaeologist Ticia Verveer wrote:A Roman throwing tower found at Vettweiß-Froitz-heim in Germany. The sides have been worked open, so that the players could see the dice rolling. Invented to prevent cheating. Text on the back reads: utere felix vivas ('use it and live as a lucky man').
4th century
On the front it says Pictos victos hostis deleta ludite securi ('The Picts have been defeated, the enemy destroyed, play carefree').
The text refers to a Roman victory over the Picts in Scotland, north of Roman Britannia.
At LVR Museum, Bonn, Germany http://www.landesmuseum-bonn.lvr.de/en/startseite.html
https://www.wissenschaft.de/magazin/wei ... im-museum/
Roman Dice Tower
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Re: Roman Dice Tower
Karak Norn Clansman wrote:The Picts have been defeated,
Shows the internationalism of the Empire I guess. At one point holding off the Painted People would have been the job of the forces on Hadrian's Wall but things were more fluid by the C4th I suppose.Karak Norn Clansman wrote:Germany
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I saw that! Thought that it was a cheese grater at first
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Re: Roman Dice Tower
I'm most interested in the grammar.
It's clearly a lot less tidy and correct than in textbooks or classical authors. I wonder if it's just heavily abbreviated, or whether changes in Latin by the 4th century are somewhat responsible. I wonder what form of Latin they were actually speaking then.
Fairly boring thoughts, I'll admit.
It's clearly a lot less tidy and correct than in textbooks or classical authors. I wonder if it's just heavily abbreviated, or whether changes in Latin by the 4th century are somewhat responsible. I wonder what form of Latin they were actually speaking then.
Fairly boring thoughts, I'll admit.
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Re: Roman Dice Tower
Don't forget the effects of Latin as a 2nd language