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A game piece in the shape of a baboon, carved from an animal’s ankle joint, and dates to the Ptolemaic Period (304-30 BCE).


This piece(66.99.75), which is only 3.4 centimeters in height, is on view in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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