I have a reproduction of a similar die from the reserve collection of the Louvre Museum in Paris. You are correct that they are the Greek letters used in Ptolemaic times for the numbers 1 to 20. According to F. N. David's book Gods, Games and Gambling, other icosahedral Roman dice of this period had Roman numerals from 1 to 20. I suspect that both the d20s with Greek letter-numbers and the ones with Roman numerals were used for gambling but that's just conjecture on my part. They may have been used for divination. Nobody knows for sure.Korgoth said:Are you sure those aren't Greek letters? They look somewhat like Greek letters to me.
Egypt was still a Hellenistic culture, and the principal language was Greek. Greeks used the letters of their alphabet to count with ("Alpha" is one, "Beta" is two, etc.).
Unless you have been time-traveling and mucking with the time-line again, I am afraid not.MortalPlague said:Wasn't OD&D out back then?