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What a wonderful rabbit hole to go down. My takeaways are it could possibly be used for knitting, but traditional spool knitting that the Grandma uses in the video doesn’t show up in history until the 1500s. If the Romans did use it for gloves then knitting has been around much longer than we have evidence of or they were using a different method with the dodecahedron.
I think I also read these were usually found with treasures and with minimal or no wear, so there isn’t any evidence they were used for anything.
That’s a d12. Clearly, the Romans were using it to play D&D.
I cast fear on Julius Caesar!
Uh oh, Julius Ceasar’s only path is through most of the members of Senate. Each member gets one attack of opportunity.
Go ahead and roll 23 dodecahedrons for hits! Brutus also gets advantage for backstab.
maybe its for measuring how much pasta you need to boil
There’s no horse on it, silly!
I understood that reference
how much pasta you need to knit a toga or some shit
My mother got really interested in these things a while ago. I think she mostly buys into the glove-knitting theory. Whatever the case, I 3D printed her a model of one and it’s sitting on the mantle over her fireplace.
I 3D printed her a model of one and it’s sitting on the mantle over her fireplace.
That kinda hints to it not being very useful then…
You put fossils in them dude
It’s a ghastly that ran out of gas.
To me it looks like something you’d use to easily make a Monkey Fist for throwing line to/from a pier. Though I guess that doesn’t make much sense appearing in mountainous regions, unless they were made in the mountains (proximity to ore?)
