The corpus record

τάβλ-α

tabla · ἡ

dice-table

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What it meant — LSJ

dice-table, tokens

= Lat. tabula, ἀπὸ χαλκῆς τάβλης Wilcken Chr. 460.15 (ii A.D.), cf. BGU 780.15 (ii A.D.); dice-table, acc. τάβλην AP 9.482.27 (Agath.), but τάβλαν ib. 767 lemma; acc. τάβλαν, of a mummy-label, Wilcken Chr. 499.5 (ii/ iii A.D.); acc. pl. τάβλας, of corn-distribution tokens, Sammelb. 4514 (iii A.D.).

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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