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Rubber Ball

Date

300 BCE-250 CE

Creator

Unidentified Miraflores artist

Unrecorded artist

Location

Raclin Murphy Museum of Art

The archaeological preservation of rubber ballgame balls from ancient times is very rare. The size of this example suggests it belonged in one of the hand ballgames in which a manopla of stone or wood was used to hit the ball. from Bradley, Life, Death & Duality: A Handbook of the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Collection of Ritual Ballgame Sculpture (Notre Dame, 1997)

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The archaeological preservation of rubber ballgame balls from ancient times is very rare. The size of this example suggests it belonged in one of the hand ballgames in which a manopla of stone or wood was used to hit the ball. from Bradley, Life, Death & Duality: A Handbook of the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Collection of Ritual Ballgame Sculpture (Notre Dame, 1997)
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Formerly attributed to Unidentified Miraflores artistUnrecorded artist
300 BCE-250 CE
Tools, Implements, and Weights
Rubber
1989.022
ball game equipment
Miraflores
rubber
Raclin Murphy Museum: 205
3 x 3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 x 7.62 cm)
Gift of Raymond E. Britt Jr., by Exchange

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