2000 Year Old Roman d20 Up For Auction

dolo666 writes "There is a d20 for sale at Christie's. Titled; "A ROMAN GLASS GAMING DIE", this item dates to circa 2nd Century A.D., and it's likely to go for a mere $6k USD! Just think of the die-hard dice gamer on your list, this festive season! That would make all those late night Cthulhu missions with Lord Nekrull, my 16th level Assassin demi-god, a smashing good time!"

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And there was I...

[Aardpig]

...thinking that d20 was referring to a 20-Denarii coin. D'oh

Re:Actual use

[Lord Kano]

Brilliant. I hereby dub you the king of first posters.

and it's likely a fake

[Anonymous Coward]

note that the pedigree of this item is a single
statement that the thing was bought by the sellers
father in Egypt in the 1920's.

That is the kind of pedigree that would bid this
item up to about $20 as a curio.

The seller is smoking crack, as is anyone who bids
more than a few bucks on that thing.

Re:Actual use

[D-Cypell]

actually.. I made that all up, sure sounds good though, eh? PS: f1st pr0st

Impressive!! Purely a product of your imagination but still in my top 10 list of most plausable things read on slashdot ever ;o)

The real reason Rome fell

[Anonymous Coward]

The empire fell because the Romans became D&D addicts.

Re:Sounds like a major assumption to me

[glwtta]

it's much more likely that this was either a divination tool or a model representing someone's cosmological theory.

So, like it says - gaming.

Re:Did the Bible mention Roman dice?

[Chalybeous]

I dunno about Roman dice, but I seem to recall some notion dating from around the same time, in either the Bible or the Torah, which said that God plays dice with the universe. If memory serves, the person who imparted this information to me X number of years ago was correcting Einstein...