Archive for June, 2008

Roman d20

From Christies, a recently auctioned authentic Roman twenty-sided die, c. 2 A.D.:

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“Several polyhedra in various materials with similar symbols are known from the Roman period. Modern scholarship has not yet established the game for which these dice were used.” Apparently it was from the collection of a Maryland Fine Arts professor. Hmm.

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