The Finger Calculus in Antiquity and in the Middle Ages Studies on Roman Game Counters I

Alföldi-Rosenbaum, Elisabeth

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“…The latter series is frequently dubbed spintriae in modern scholarship, although these objects were not known as such in antiquity; an example of a spintria is reproduced here as Figure 1.3. 22 The discovery of a spintria (likely a contemporary imitation) covered in gold leaf in a tomb in 19 Rostovtzeff, 1905a on the Kerch discovery, since then see the studies of Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1971;Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1976;Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1980;Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1984;Bianchi, 2015. 20 Bianchi, 2015: 62 for circular pieces without imagery and simply numbers inscribed on the flattened side; Mlasowsky, 1991: nos.…”

Section: Defining Roman Tokensmentioning

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Tokens and Social Life in Roman Imperial Italy

Rowan

2023

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Tokens are underutilised artefacts from the ancient world, but as everyday objects they were key in mediating human interactions. This book provides an accessible introduction to tokens from Roman Italy. It explores their role in the creation of imperial imagery, as well as what they can reveal about the numerous identities that existed in different communities within Rome and Ostia. It is clear that tokens carried imagery that was connected to the emotions and experiences of different festivals, and that they were designed to act upon their users to provoke particular reactions. Tokens bear many similarities to ancient Roman currency, but also possess important differences. The tokens of Roman Italy were objects used by a wide variety of groups for particular events or moments in time; their designs reveal experiences and individuals otherwise lost to history. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Section: Defining Roman Tokensmentioning

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Tokens and Social Life in Roman Imperial Italy

Rowan

2023

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“…21 There are also simpler counters without images but only with circular grooves on the obverse; on the reverse the usual numerals range from 1 to 15 in Latin and Greek. 21 FRÖHNER 1884; ALFÖLDI-ROSENBAUM 1971;BIANCHI 2015, 60, 63, no. 16.…”

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Roman Game Finds from Cremona (Italy)

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Bianchi

2022

Board Game Studies Journal

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Finds pertaining to board games have been discovered during excavations in the northern Italian town of Cremona. Some objects were found in the recently published Piazza Marconi dig, in contexts belonging to three domus dated between the late Republic and the early Empire (40 BC - 69 AD). Thirteen black and white glass counters and two ivory dice were found in the remains of a wooden chest of drawers or cabinet in a probable service room of the “Domus del ninfeo”. A bone “Alexandrian” counter incised with a bird in flight and, on the reverse, the Roman numeral II and the Greek number B (beta) was found in the destruction levels following the drastic siege of Cremona by Vespasian troops during the civil war of 69 AD. Finally, a bone token in the form of an elongated parallelepiped (so-called tessera lusoria) with the word FICOSE inscribed on one side and the Roman numeral XIV on the other was found in the construction trench of an early Imperial house discovered during excavations underneath the Cathedral of Cremona. The paper will discuss in detail the finds, their contexts and their meanings.

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“…como en el arte, pues hay evidencias en una serie de pequeñas tablillas o tesserae alejandrinas de hueso y marfil en cuyo reverso aparecen grabadas figuras de la mano que representan el cómputo numérico (cf. Alföldi-Rosenbaum 1971). Aunque su descripción se documenta por vez primera en un breve tratado conocido como Romana computatio escrito hacia el año 688, es san Beda el Venerable (672-735) el responsable de su transmisión a la posteridad, dada la gran difusión de que gozó su De temporum ratione (725), obra de referencia hasta la reforma gregoriana de 1582 sobre el cómputo, ciencia que en la Edad Media se ocupaba del cálculo y estructuración del tiempo cronológico y del calendario litúrgico.…”

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La gestualidad en el diseño de lenguas artificiales: de los alfabetos manuales con fines criptográficos a las lenguas universales

Gavilán

2020

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En este trabajo se muestra que la tradición de los alfabetos manuales, vinculada en sus orígenes a la scriptura digitorum y al ars memoriae, tiene nuevas aplicaciones en el siglo XVII como consecuencia de los nuevos enfoques de la lingüística: no solo su empleo para la enseñanza de la lectura a las personas sordas ‒como es sabido‒, sino también su uso para la comunicación secreta, en correspondencia con la relevancia adquirida por la criptografía. Enmarcados en el interés existente en la época por el lenguaje gestual, se describen los códigos dactilológicos con fines criptográficos que proponen Wilkins (1694 [1641]), Bulwer (1644) y Caramuel (1665 [1657]), autores que también defendieron la idea de la inteligibilidad de los gestos por todo el género humano e hicieron contribuciones al movimiento de creación de lenguas universales.

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The Finger Calculus in Antiquity and in the Middle Ages Studies on Roman Game Counters I

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Tokens and Social Life in Roman Imperial Italy

Tokens and Social Life in Roman Imperial Italy

Roman Game Finds from Cremona (Italy)

La gestualidad en el diseño de lenguas artificiales: de los alfabetos manuales con fines criptográficos a las lenguas universales

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