At the same time it must be remarked that the stains, which extend below the surface of the tesserae in the pavement, are not red but of a blackish colour.
In playing, they used three tesserae and four tali, which were all put into a box wider below than above, and being shaken, were thrown out upon the gaming-board or table.
Tesserae of this description were no doubt formed by squeezing plastic clay into metal moulds, and almost perfect identity was obtained between the tesserae obtained from the same mould.
The Romans, at their feasts, during the intervals of drinking, often played at dice, of which there were two kinds, the tesserae and tali.
Except for the fillet of gold set so low on his head that it passed around his forehead just above the brows, Agrippa might have been the same nonchalant bankrupt gambling with loaded tesserae or hunting loans on bad security.
Presently the Greek took the tesseraeand threw them.
Capito nervously fingered the tesserae at his hand.
At the far end was a small carven table at which two Romans sat, a lamp and a crater of wine at their elbows, the tesserae of a dice-game between them.
I cast dice with Three; three grisly hags, and I lose, though the tesserae were cogged.
The sanctuary is paved with coloured tesserae and marbles, in a series of five steps, the uppermost of which forms the predella, or footpace, to the altar.
The sanctuary is paved with Roman tesserae and coloured marbles, in agreement with the pavement beneath the High Altar, but of a less elaborate pattern.
The tesseraehere consisted of little cubes of hard sandstone of about 1 inch, several of which were loose or projected slightly above the general level.
When the concrete and tesserae were first cleared over a space of 14 by 9 ft.
Now in the castings ejected between the tesserae on one of the buried floors of the Roman villa at Abinger, there were many particles (from to 2 mm.
In several places, thetesserae appeared as if drawn a little away from the walls; whilst in other places they were still in close contact with them.
I picked up some tesserae about the acropolis hill, but I saw none elsewhere near Beisan,--discovered no inscriptions, and heard of no coins.
Still higher, I picked up some tesserae of mosaic, and morsels of marble and alabaster,--a piece of the latter now lies on the table before me.
But glass mosaics were already in use in the Augustan age, and the use of gilt tesserae goes back to the 1st or 2nd century.
But whatever element of dexterity may have originally pervaded the pastime, it was very rapidly dispelled, and both tali and tesserae became, as they have since remained, the instruments of wagering and gain.
The tali had four even surfaces, the tesserae six.
Both tali and tesserae were usually knuckle-bones of an animal, frequently the gazelle; the uneven ends being planed smooth in the case of the tesserae, while for the tali they were left in their natural condition.
It is in fact an illustrated ordinary of Italian arms, Tesserae Gentilitiae, Romae, 1638.
The fondi d'oro suggested the manufacture of plaques of gold which could be broken up into tesserae for use in mosaics.
The attention of archaeologists has been recently directed to the tesserae of gladiators.
Tournel, who, by fusing together coloured tesserae on to larger pieces of colourless glass, anticipated the discovery of the already mentioned fragment of Byzantine mosaic now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The remains of a small basilica church have been dug out, whose broken shafts and bits of marble chancel rails are strewn on the ground, and tesserae are plentiful among the grass.
Tesserae work up through the turf, fine cornices and mouldings lie about among the brambles, and the live green acanthus flourishes near the stony leaves of big Corinthian capitals.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tesserae" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: check; checkerboard; harlequin; mosaic; parquet; patchwork; plaid; tartan; tessera
