Re: Is this the oldest d20 on Earth?

2014-09-20 Thread Richard Cook 
On Sep 20, 2014, at 5:35 PM, Jonathan Coxhead jonat...@doves.demon.co.uk 
wrote:
 
 Here's an icosahedral dice from the Ptolemaic period:
 
 http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/551070
 
 I find myself idly wondering whether the identities of the characters are all 
 known and encoded ...
 

The enlarged image doesn't show all of the sides.

 Cheers
 
 —Jonathan
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Re: Is this the oldest d20 on Earth?

2014-09-20 Thread Rebecca Bettencourt 
According to this post, the 20 sides are the first 20 letters of the
Greek/Coptic alphabet, with a stylized form of alpha (where the crossbar is
a V) and lunate sigma (which looks like C instead of Σ).

http://www.artisandice.com/blog/ptolemaic-d20/

Lunate sigma is U+03F9 (uppercase) and U+03F2 (lowercase).

So yes, all 20 symbols are known and encoded.


-- Rebecca Bettencourt

On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Richard Cook rsc...@wenlin.com wrote:

 On Sep 20, 2014, at 5:35 PM, Jonathan Coxhead jonat...@doves.demon.co.uk
 wrote:
 
  Here's an icosahedral dice from the Ptolemaic period:
 
  http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/551070
 
  I find myself idly wondering whether the identities of the characters
 are all known and encoded ...
 

 The enlarged image doesn't show all of the sides.

  Cheers
 
  —Jonathan
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