I was able to find a source from The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s website. it seems that it would’ve actually gone up to the 20th letter.
A number of polyhedral dice made in various materials have survived from the Hellenistic and Roman periods, usually from ancient Egypt when known. Several are in the Egyptian or Greek and Roman collections at the Museum. The icosahedron – 20-sided polyhedron – is frequent. Most often each face of the die is inscribed with a number in Greek and/or Latin up to the number of faces on the polyhedron.
This doesn’t make sense.
Zeta isn’t the last letter of the Greek alphabet, Omega is. And Upsilon is the 20th if they could only fit twenty letters on a twenty sided die.
Except for the post title I didn’t see any implication that zeta would be the highest value in the text.
I was able to find a source from The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s website. it seems that it would’ve actually gone up to the 20th letter.
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Here’s another thing that doesn’t make sense about that post:
If you just play Dungeons & Dragons, then it looks like the hundreds or thousands of other d20s you’ve seen. Barely worth a look.
On the other hand, if you just like dice, like a lot of TTRPG people do, then it might catch your attention.
The Venn diagram of people who play D&D and people who get excited about fancy D20s is practically a circle
Yeah that immediately set off the bullshit detectors. Everything else in this post looks stupid but that sounded like utter crap
It’s likely all fake. Olympos is in Greece, not Turkey.
Akshually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_peaks_named_Olympus several are in turkey as well.
Another comment in this thread has a link to a source confirming the die is real, doesn’t mention the pillar tho
Nah uhh i watched Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Olympos is in America.
Seriously though I keep getting pulled out of the show because it’s so American when it’s Greek mythology.