"Modern scholarship has not yet established the game for which these dice were used."

[philmophlegm]

Isn't it obvious?

http://www.christies.com/Lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=4205385

Comments

[wryelle.livejournal.com]

ooooooooo And there are other's? It's a set. :D

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Someone with better Latin than me needs to tell us the Latin for "Roll to hit" and "Make a saving throw".

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

More like San Check, I'd have said it was more likely a Cthulu game die, found in Egypt after all...

[wryelle.livejournal.com]

Now I'm imagining a decadent emperor using live slave minitures. O.o

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

My first thought was that this was a hoax, then I thought, "Don't be silly, of course they knew about the Platonic* solids."

*These being solids that, although they live together in the same box / house, just do this out of friendship and don't actually sleep together ... ;-)

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

Yeah, except we know quite enough about Plato's preferences and entanglements to know what a Platonic relationship would really entail...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

A tad tricky for dice to manage, though ...

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that should come in handy for a nice game of Viator ;-)

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

I could have done that myself!

I'd be more impressed if you'd translate this:

This is Free Trader Beowulf,
Calling Anyone...
Mayday, Mayday we are under attack...
main drive is gone...
turret number one not responding...
Mayday... losing cabin pressure fast...
calling anyone.. please help..
This is Free Trader Beowulf..
Mayday...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I'm sure MastermindChampion could, although he's away in the States for a few more days.