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world’s oldest d20

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The Egyptian d20 was dated between 304 and 30 B.C., is made from the mineral serpentine, and about 1.5″ around.


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    derek

    Dungeons & Dragons has been around a lot longer than I thought

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    Korinthian

    So what do the symbols mean? They don’t look like numerals or hieroglyphs to me. Greek?

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    JediaKyrol

    apparently it’s from the Ptolemaic period…around same time as Cleopatra. So yeah, it’s an ancient “Greek” d20…that was found in Egypt.

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    Goldfinger

    Yup, definitely greek letters. They are capitals so most of them look like latin letters but there’s Delta in the top left triangle and a Theta in the middle triangle of the lowest row.

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    przxqgl

    it’s got a Γ, Δ, Ε, Ν, Α, Β, Κ, Η, Θ and Ι visible…

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    HoChunk

    The ancient Greeks invented Scattergories?

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