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Games of the Russians on the streets, Between 1792 and 1820. Private Collection
Boys playing Knucklebones (Babki), ca 1812. Artist: Korneev (Karneev), Yemelyan Mikhaylovich (ca 1780-after 1839)Boys playing Knucklebones (Babki), ca 1812. Private Collection
Boys playing Knucklebones (Babki). Found in the Collection of State Museum of A.S. Pushkin, Moscow
Knucklebones. Illustration from Il costume antico e moderno o storia del governo? by Giulio Ferrario, 1831. From a private collection
Boys playing Knucklebones, 1860sBoys playing Knucklebones
October, wine-making, early 16th century. Grapes are pressed and wine is drawn from a barrel. Below: skittles with knuckle-bones. From a Flemish calendar in the collection of the British Library
Greek red-figure astragalos with dancing figures, 5th century BCThis is a Greek red-figure astragalos (vessel in the form of a knucklebone) which was made in Athens. On the left is Aeolus at the mouth of his cave, dancing the dance of the clouds, 5th century BC
Terracotta group of knucklebone (astragalos) players, Hellenistic Greek, c330-c300 BC. The two figures play a game similar to the modern game of jacks. From the British Museums collection
Greek bronze mirror case with Aphrodite and Pan, c350 BC. Aphrodite and Pan are depicted with an incised drawing playing knucklebones, a popular childrens game. Said to be from Corinth
Close-up of a Greek bronze mirror-back, showing Aphrodite and Pan playing knuckle-bones, from the British Museums collection
Roman painting on marble of ladies playing knucklebonesRoman painting on marble of Niobes daughters playing knucklebones, from Pompeii. Now in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples