One Athenian burial produced five bulbous unguentaria along with five knucklebones and a bronze needle; another, of a female child, contained an unguentarium, earrings, a blue glass pendant, and six knucklebones.
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One Athenian burial produced five bulbous unguentaria along with five knucklebones and a bronze needle; another, of a female child, contained an unguentarium, earrings, a blue glass pendant, and six knucklebones.
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The gravestone of Plangon, an Athenian girl aged about five which is in the Glyptothek museum in Munich, shows her holding a doll; a set of knucklebones hangs on a wall in the background.
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If criterion 1 is being claimed of WP : WEB " The content itself has been the subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the site itself " the only " reliable " source may be the Knucklebones hardcopy article.
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An excavation by French archaeologists in 1969 produced a shards, bone flutes, iron and bronze rings, miniature bronze statues, 50, 000 terracotta figurines from the classical period and 24, 000 astragaloi, or " knucklebones " ( used for astragalomancy, or " prophecy by knucklebones " ).
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An excavation by French archaeologists in 1969 produced a shards, bone flutes, iron and bronze rings, miniature bronze statues, 50, 000 terracotta figurines from the classical period and 24, 000 astragaloi, or " knucklebones " ( used for astragalomancy, or " prophecy by knucklebones " ).
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Of the latter, a highlight is " A Game of Knucklebones " ( circa 1734 ), by Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin, which depicts a rosy-cheeked, simply attired teenage girl who has just tossed a ball into the air and is preparing to pick up four knucklebones scattered on a table.
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Of the latter, a highlight is " A Game of Knucklebones " ( circa 1734 ), by Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin, which depicts a rosy-cheeked, simply attired teenage girl who has just tossed a ball into the air and is preparing to pick up four knucklebones scattered on a table.
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Diogenes says that Heraclitus used to play knucklebones with the youths in the temple of Artemis and when asked to start making laws he refused saying that the constitution ( " politeia " ) was " pon�ra ", which can mean either that it was fundamentally wrong or that he considered it toilsome.
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As Johnston pointed out, all you have to do is contrast " A Game of Knucklebones " with Jean Marc Nattier's " Elisabeth Rigoley d'Ogny as Night " ( 1752 ), an effete, idealized portrait of a noblewoman, and you'll understand why there was a French revolution.
