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A stone device selected jurors
Ancient Athens used the kleroterion to select citizens for offices and juries. Identification tokens fitted into rows of slots in a stone slab. Differently coloured lots released from an attached tube determined which rows were selected.
A stone slab could be part of a system for random selection.
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