Gallery of the Candelabra: The statuette of a child playing with a walnut
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“Statuette of a child playing with a walnut” is from a Hellenistic original of the third century BC found in 1784 in the village Acquatraversa on the Via Cassia. The head is modern. Ancient sources and illustrations show that the games with walnuts were very popular in antiquity.