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[–] milkisklim@lemmy.world 34 points 5 days ago (12 children)

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.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] milkisklim@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for doing the work! I appreciate you

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

The Greek alphabet, which is the earliest known script to systematically include both consonants and vowels, is generally believed to have added vowels when it was adapted from the Phoenician script during the late 9th or early 8th century BCE.

Sorry, that paragraph is AI written but I was asking about something I know and too lazy to rewrite it myself.

The Phoenician alphabet which influenced the greek script had 22 letters afaik. Still doesn't match the sides but it's closer

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