Why did the romans have so many of these dodecahedrons and what are they even supposed to do?
Why did the romans have so many of these dodecahedrons and what are they even supposed to do?
Table top rpgs
fidget spinner
this
a toy
sorts coins.
You can look this up online no need to make another post about it
They made them to troll future historians. It's working as intended.
Some say it was a blacksmith's guild exam item, others say it was for measuring shaft girth.
Obviously magnification. The holes are aligned.
The thing held lenses. You can rotate it to get different levels of magnification.
Coin sorter
Source: schizo thread posted here like a couple weeks ago. Dump coins in and shake, coins of certain size come out.
i got this news from the worst jew in the entire world and i dont trust anything from him
copyrights ancient roman artifact
not so fast buddy
It's empty. You have to fill it up.
That's absolutely disgusting.
Araki predicted this
strange nobody wrote about them or included them art. like how maginfying glasses are riddled throughout modern culture.
Opposite sides same diameter
SHAFT MEASURER (also op’s mothers nickname)
knitting
the holes of varying size allow you to place it on a stick
Platonic religious symbol.
Isocohedrons have been found as well and made in a similar form.
Its a religious artifact, most likely.
Well they had magnification lenses in Rome. You can look it up. That's a multi-mangnifying tool.
That's why the holes from front to back align, and you can look through it.
The notches allow it to stand above, raised off paper.
The size doesn't work for that.
They're not consistently sized, with some holes being too small to be practically used for anything.
Look like attachable nods for ballsocket joints
Would have used an arm or attachable of sorts that deattached
it was their version of the magic 8 ball.
I've always been of the belief that they were used for some type of game for gambling
Measuring dick size.
Imagine we didn't know what a kaleidoscope was and we just found one buried one day. Sometimes shit just looks neat. Also could be something insanely mundane like measuring the girth of bunches to sell at market
its a yakubian perpetual motion engine, darkies wouldn't understand
It's not romans
Celts made those during roman rule and before it
There's map that shows those and there isn't any found anywhere south from northern Italy
It's definitely not for coins because celts were retarded barbarians up until their extinction
Yeah, the balls are for measuring the angle of your dangle and the holes are for the worth of your girth.
Ancient anti-semitic mechanism (coin sorter)
it's a spaghetti tool
Neither were coins consistently sized, especially after certain ethnicities got to them.
the indents look like some kind of locking mechanism the balls are an anomoly#
it looks like you push something into the holes then twist tolock it inplace
Kinda looks like coronavirus.
It even has those spike proteins protruding outwards.
clipped coin finder
multiplayer fingerbox
They’re for making gloves you retard
this isn't Anon Babblehumor thread
its similar to how adenovirus supposedly looks
here we go! roman dodecahedron thread #284. that being said: i like these threads.
primitive circumcision device
Is this a corona virus
why the big hole?
finger boxes
to accommodate different size hands/material or for mounting it on a stick
or a rolling dice (for gambling or fortune telling) with missing color/number inlays.
welcome to the fascinating world of sacred geometry. everything in the universe, big and small, shares similar forms based on platonic solids, spirals, fractals, and other mathematical fun stuff. as above so below.
Here's a hint.
or a knitting device for various pole girths, yes.
its a D10 die for D&D and other tabletop RPGs
there's better/easier ways to do that. you can just put notches in wood
finger boxes
its a distance scaler, an olsdkool rangefinder
It’s a magical talisman, or that’s what they duped people into thinking to get them to buy them. Little balls at the ends of symbols are very common in magical scripts of that time.
Here found some shit quality map of it
You can see where dodecahedron generally were found and it only correlates with celts living there at one point or another
Only place that didn't have them but had celts pre roman empire is Galatia in Anatolia
isn't this for something simple like knitting gloves or something? some old lady made these out of plastic and sold them on ebay.
this is the only acceptable answer
This is the simplest explanation
GEE WHAT IS THIS
it's a bobble to put on your desk. Fads come and go, and it probably got you mad huzz by having one. Stay up on it, unc.
isn't there a book from the 1400s that is basically that. pictures of a bunch of fake plants or something?
yea its probably what it was, they found them in military bases
What metal are they made of? Sorry if someone mentioned it already, I can't read.
it's literally just for knitting
Its literally their use, theres tons of examples of people using them for it
Celts were known for their Metallurgy so it makes sense this is a divice of Celtic origin. They became the Blacksmiths of Rome after Ceasar.
That wasn't a schizo, it was a retard faggot
These are models of coronavirus
Based and spin pilled.
Sauce on Roman magnifying lenses? That would comfortably answer the question of what these devices were used for. I'm still interested in the potential artillery or surveying uses for it.
Knitting like that wouldn't be invented for another 1000 years. Try again.
of Celtic origin
More like exclusively used by them
I think if it had any practical use you would find dodecahedron in other places
Yet you can't
Pokeballs
they made rope with it by wrapping several strands of fiber around the nodules
Some sorta sacred geometry. Some old roman cunt wrotementioned it but idr who
I imagine it was probably a toy or a magic trinket. It wasn't important enough for Romans to write about it unlike Chain Armor or Gladius which are of Celtic origin BTW. Or it was something so well known by the Romans that it didn't need to be written.
Used for decimation in some legions and often taken after service by veterans. Basically you and your tent buddies would have to get your dicks inside and touch tips. Anyone left without a hole is executed, but also anyone unable to touch tips with the bros through the contraption would be executed for disloyalty.
We live in a rotting fungus economy.
Viruses aren't real. They're fake, gay, and jewish.
So it's a fleshlight.
Coin sorter. It would be needed by bookkeepers across the empire to manage large amounts of currency.
put the poles through
wrap the poles to secure
tent set up complete
copyright is fake and so is intellectual property
they seem to be real but that doesn't mean we actually understand them, it could be some allergic response
they're sex toys
It's for knitting penis cozies without notching your penis.
These dodecahedrons were theorized to be for glove-making. I still think they may have been something related to a way of thought/cult/belief system or order.
Pythagoras, is that you old friend?
the fingerbox of the age
based LMAO
it just looks cool
Penis inspection gauge.
It's the year 5040 and scientists have discovered this mysterious ancient artifact from the year 2025. Many nigger experts believe it was alien technology. We must spend another $80 000 000 000 investigating this magical unknown artifact. There are legends of once existing a race of "white" people which is completely insane.
Actually, it is 12 sided, which would have been of relevance to gnostics or neo-pythagoreanists.
Not long ago some anon on Anon Babble made an interesting case that they're coin counters. They're usually found with coin stashed, the openings are different sizes but well suited to Roman coins, and they're usually somewhat worn on the inside.
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Must have shoved them up their asses
The Celtic chariot was a huge leap the Romans overlooked and Celtic swords were superior to Roman that the Romans adopted them. The problem with the Celts is that they didn't really unite until it was too late, and they united around a woman of all things.
Yeah! You get it. I'm happy someone did lol.
If it is of Celtic origin, the use of knitting for a type of suspension would make sense, but is still reaching because some of the Celtic tribes that survived have no idea what it is.
pic related
those things just don't feel worth for crating even tough they are the best in theory.
they were everywhere
Navigation and calendar device judging by the locations of found artifacts.
its for pipe connections
head checker
I probably whistles when thrown. Also the romans didnt really have anything to do with it, they were mostly found in roman conquered celtic and or garlic parts of the empire.
If you drop religious and replace it with intellectual curio then I believe that's 100% what they were. We have shit like this all the time in executive spaces like people buying bespoke glass Klein bottles, $500 "precision balanced" titanium spinning tops or Newton's Cradle or chaotic motion executive toys.
It's also generally not the actual scientists/mathematicians who get them but the executive wankers who have an education but contribute nothing to society so they try to justify their connection to actually smart people.
Dumb faggot. Go back to tumblr retard. they're not even good for it, and are literally worse than a carved tube of wood with misfit nails in it. This is just homeopathy type anti-intellectualism for millennial women.
it's was a mindfulness tool to remind them to think of the empire they lived in
So it's a roman bussy destroyer
Reconstructive archaeology isn't science. There's literally 0 evidence of either the Romans having gloves, or of any of the examples of these dodecahedra having any markings or any other evidence of knitting in the Roman period at all.
So back to Tumblr you go femanon.
Every coin falls through the hole designed to fit the sesterius
nice sorter bro
Cant they just replicate one and try all sorts of shit with it?
Or you can use that jig and not put notches in your wooden jig sticks?
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It's a game right?
You roll it and win the coins?
Look how small this fucker is
sure it can be used for a game or something
Probably a ring sizer
garlic parts of the empire
Tell me more.
I can't help but think it might in part be a rangefinder. Is there scaling between the different hole sizes?
Road building
Simply an art piece, or something mystical?
Also came here to bring up the “Platonic solids” as they’re called, , good on anon for bringing it up. Plato speculated that atoms of these core elements could be reduced to these shapes, and it was their interaction that formed the universe. Bit of a primitive simplistic view by our understanding today but it was a start. Also similar to and inspired from Pythagorean mysticism, where shapes, numbers, and geometry generally took on mystical significance.
ball gag, with ez access for the ludi's.
Even Romans gotta ability check.
No this is retarded and has been disproven
My first thought
How so?
copyright
an antique
That's not how that works.
no
how the fuck does it not show up in rome?
Who cares
be roman tinkerer
tinker shit
cast it in bronze because, sure what the fuck?
be archaeologist, find tinkered shit
wtf?!!11!!?
be internet sleuths (tismos): it's a this that and the other!
Imagine what they'll make of this place in a thousand years!
Also something from the frontlines I guess?
Some modern lady used it to knit gloves. Probably had some application in making rope or nets though.
They're all different shapes and sizes and would offer literally nothing for road building.
Why do you need one of those to build a road?
We literally have a copy of a contemporary Roman Engineering book about how they would train people to build roads. They do not mention those things at all, period.
probably the equivalent of their hipster that they thought it looks cool
i think those are actually pyramidons, and they were designed to be used in combination to create vril generators, which were used for many things, some of them include remote viewing, teleportation and even the creation of rifts so that the user could break through reality itself and reach the true version
Britains's 33rd
This. Pol is slipping with the noticing.
This looks to support a rangefinding hypothesis.