It has the same external form as a certain
facetting of the
dodecahedron having 20 self-intersecting
hexagons as faces. The non-convex hexagon face can be broken up into four equilateral triangles, three of which are the same size. A true excavated dodecahedron has the three congruent equilateral triangles as true faces of the polyhedron, while the interior equilateral triangle is not present. The 20 vertices of the
convex hull match the
vertex arrangement of the
dodecahedron. File:AD2.png|One of the star hexagon faces highlighted. File:Excavated dodecahedron face.png|Its face as a facet of the
dodecahedron. The faceting is a
noble polyhedron. With six six-sided faces around each vertex, it is topologically equivalent to a quotient space of the
hyperbolic order-6 hexagonal tiling, {6,6} and is an abstract type {6,6}6. It is one of ten
abstract regular polyhedra of index two with vertices on one orbit. ==Related polyhedra==