Is this the oldest d20 on Earth?

[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 <rscook at wenlin.com> wrote:

> On Sep 20, 2014, at 5:35 PM, Jonathan Coxhead <jonathan at 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
> > _______________________________________________
> > Unicode mailing list
> > Unicode at unicode.org
> > http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
> >
>
> _______________________________________________
> Unicode mailing list
> Unicode at unicode.org
> http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://unicode.org/pipermail/unicode/attachments/20140920/10f3b68f/attachment.html>