二十面体（二十面体），正面刻有希腊字母 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	二十面体（二十面体），正面刻有希腊字母
品名（英）	Twenty-sided die (icosahedron) with faces inscribed with Greek letters
入馆年号	1910年，10.130.1159
策展部门	埃及艺术（Egyptian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 200 - 公元 400
创作地区	来自于: 埃及（From: Egypt）
分类
尺寸	高 4.5 x 长 4.9 x 宽 4.7 厘米 (1 3/4 x 1 15/16 x 1 7/8 英寸)
介绍（中）	许多用各种材料制成的多面体骰子从希腊化和罗马时期幸存下来，通常来自古埃及。有几个在博物馆的埃及或希腊和罗马收藏中。二十面体 - 20面体多面体 - 很常见。大多数情况下，骰子的每个面都刻有希腊语和/或拉丁语的数字，直到多面体上的面数。关于这些多面体的使用没有保留任何具体内容，因此理论是建立在一些变体示例提供的线索之上的。一个不寻常的例子使用希腊词，其中一些类似于与投掷黄芪（指关节骨）相关的单词，这导致了它们用于游戏的建议。1980年代在埃及的Dakhleh绿洲发现的另一个显着的例子记录了埃及神的名字，在Demotic（这些晚期的埃及文字）中记录在每张脸上。占卜——从超自然中寻求关于未知的建议——似乎是Dakhleh死亡最可能的目的：多面体可能是为了确定一个可以帮助修炼者的神而被抛出的。事实上，即使是带有简单字母的骰子也可能与占卜有关：公元2世纪或3世纪编写的希腊神谕书提到投掷抽签以获得一个数字，通过某些算法，导致现成的神谕问题和答案。
介绍（英）	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. Nothing specific about the use of these polyhedra is preserved, so theories are built on clues provided by some variant examples. One unusual example uses Greek words, a few of which resemble those associated with throws of the astragals (knucklebones), and this has led to suggestions they were used for games. Another remarkable example discovered in Dakhleh Oasis in Egypt in the 1980s records an Egyptian god’s name in Demotic (the Egyptian script of these late periods) on each face. Divination – seeking advice about the unknown from the supernatural – seems to be the most likely purpose for the Dakhleh die: the polyhedron might have been thrown in order to determine a god who might assist the practitioner. Indeed, even the dice with simple letters might relate to divination: a Greek oracle book composed in in the 2nd or 3rdcentury A.D. refers to throwing lots to obtain a number that would, through certain algorithms, lead to ready-prepared oracle questions and responses.