File:EB1911 Greek Art - Greek Drawing of Women Playing at Knucklebones.jpg
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English: This illustration represents the remains of a drawing on marble, representing a group of women playing knucklebones. It was found at Herculaneum. Though signed by one Alexander of Athens, who was probably a worker of the Roman age, Professor Robert is right in maintaining that
Alexander only copied a design of the age of Zeuxis and Parrhasius. In fact the drawing and grouping is so closely like that of reliefs of about 400 B.C. that the drawing is of great historic value, though there be no colouring. |
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| Date | between circa 400 and circa 300 B.C. | |||
| Source | Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), v. 12, 1911, p. 487, Fig. 42. | |||
| Author | Alexander of Athens, though he probably copied an earlier design | |||
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