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Nat Emodi
@emodi
TIL 130 of these have been discovered in different parts of the Roman empire and no one knows what they are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dodecahedron
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frdysk
@frdysk
if we're talking about functions, the protruding knobs might serve as guides to creating something from threads or the likes 🤔, the holes though, what is it, might be sizing guide
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Chaotic Neutral
@jayce
Some things never change. Have some tricky dick fun bucks for giving a good history mystery: 49 $Degen
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MBStuart 🎩 ↑
@stustustudio
Maybe this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lADTLozKm0I
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ciefa 🐌 eth/acc
@ciefa.eth
Huh o.o
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rphgrc.base.eth ↑🔵😺
@rphgrc.eth
And we also have a proof that the past participle of the verb to cast is cast, not casted :)
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@bias
Yeah, just a die for their Romans and Dragons games
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gsu
@georgesu.eth
a recent hypothesis is that they're tools used for knitting metal chains. see: https://youtu.be/lADTLozKm0I?t=95 love the fact that the video creator totally got nerdsniped by this thing and took some time out of running her etsy shop to 3D print a museum scanned version of this thing to film with
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geekaay.tez/.eth
@geekaay.eth
The coin-diameter theory really sang to me. But it seems that during the sameish period, precious metal content in Roman coinage was on a downtrend so coin clipping might have been much less or not at all lucrative. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debasement Maybe was the ur- back-massager ball instead! Great find.
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Maretus
@maretus
Wow, this is super interesting. Time to go down a fucking rabbit hole for sure. Thanks bro! 25 $DEGEN
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