Month: March 2015

• ‘Let the Snorter Be Covered in Soot’: Ancient Board Game Inscriptions

  

  ☩ μὴ θεόμαχος νήων. ☩ ☩ ἀσβολόθη ὁ ῥονχάζων. ☩ Let the snorter / be covered in soot! [MAMA X, 330=PH 269278] Games of chance are never a silent endeavor; however, Romans found it rather uncouth to snort when Fortune was not on your side. A civil person kept their nose silent. There is a strong auditory […]

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  March 30, 2015

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  aphrodisias, board games, cussing, dice, epigraphy, Greek, Inscriptions, invective, Late Antiquity, roman