Thread 514203113

youve seen these threads before, im sure. but i think ive figured it out. Romans had these things everywhere. Theyve recovered hundreds of them all throughout the Roman empire and theories of their purpose have ranged from flashlights to measurement tools to cockrings.

the answer is actually much simpler. see next post.

the dodecahedron is 'The Fifth Element'. it comes from Plato's Timaeus, one of the most popular books of the ancient world. a book which abrahamists themselves were obsessed with, because it tells the story of an Egyptian theory of the universe (which the greeks were mocking).
But in the story there is the standard eastern idea of the four elements, earth, air, fire, water. these are the Aristotelean observable elements. but Plato was more concerned with the Fifth Element, which is Aether, also known as Quintessence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether_(classical_element)

>While the Rabbis of the Talmud argued about the size of the flat Earth, the Greeks had determined the Earth to be a sphere, had calculated its circumference, and had moved on to other questions.
these were the "other questions"
the dodecahedron was the object said to represent the shape of the universe itself.
so the Romans, who considered the Greeks superior to themselves, and considered Latin a brute language and common read and wrote in Greek, idolized the Greeks. This object would have been an homage to the Platonic idea. It was an intellectual trinket. Like how you might see a Professor own a Globe in his study.

>>514203113 (OP)

Those were unironically used to make gloves. I'm not joking.

>>514203113 (OP)
Flower holder

Made for spears

>>514203113 (OP)
delete this

>>514203113 (OP)
fabric softener.
they were placed in dye vats to make the fibers soak in more dye.

>>514203169
this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lADTLozKm0I

haven't seen anything more conclusive. these items were mostly found related to military camps. So could easily be chainmail fixing or glove making.

>>514203113 (OP)
It was a device so a group of Roman men could touch tips

>>514203325
not 'mostly' in military camps
who ran those camps?
the nobles, the aristocracy, the same people who idolized the Greeks.
and who would have had their own massive, with all sorts of trinkets and decorations? these educated people. what were they educated on? Plato, for one.

>>514203467
*massive tents

>>514203325
OP BTFO
/thread

>>514203113 (OP)
Best idea I've ever heard is they're masterpieces for smiths
Must be a cunt of a thing to hammer and fold like that, proves you've got skill

>>514203325
bullshit
theyre a legionnaires penis inspection device

>>514203807
>theyre a legionnaires penis inspection device
So the US truly is the 4th Rome.

>>514203113 (OP)
Ancient pokeballs you dummy.

To make different sized socks for different sized cocks.

>>514203113 (OP)
>>514203133
>>514203160
Just by sheer indication of your syntax, phrasing, demented logic no one would believe you but a child, even if you were to be correct - which you are not.
Others have said it, it's a common tool. Just like there are things at a production plant that you wouldn't know the purpose or application of, so it certainly is with past civilizations. And why would they write about a singular specific tool?
Had it been something esoteric pertaining to the mysteries of the upper eschelons or intellectual class, you would still find it referenced in texts one way or another.

this reminds me of shit like in anchient greece or rome, they found old bathroom buildings and assumed they all shat and pissed with no stalls. im no time traveller, but given that a lot of those things were un-earthed or was left in decay for centuries… is it insane to think maybe the wooden stalls they had simply rotted away entirely? how can we judge an old culture when all we have is text and paintings (VERY unreliable - do you believe even half the shit you read right now?) and arcaeology. we judge and make assumptions off a shred of evidence and then act like we know it all. we cant even get proper accurate statements from witnesses when a crime happens because thats just how our brains work and you wanna infer stuff from incomplete data from centuries ago?

>>514203792
This is the answer. Not smiths, per se, but bronze casters. They would have both sentimental and practical value, since it’s basically your resume.

>>514203113 (OP)
Its a proof of mastery work for a bronzesmith. After they can succsessfuly make it they are no longer students

>>514204124
Must have been real fucking narrow stalls then.
Maybe they just were more comfotrable with communal shitting

Haven't seen a schizo thread in a while, nice

>>514203133
>>514203113 (OP)
Iirc most of these were found in Germany by the time, so we can ditch the Roman shit
Probably a candle holder

>>514204498
look at some movies from the 70s man. people were just TINY back then. super fucking thin, but that was healthy and normal back then. we’re all so well fed and fat nowadays, it’s insane to look at footage from even 50 years ago. those greek statues like the statue of david where it’s a muscly guy even by today’s standard, i believe were created in the image of an “ideal” physique, essentially a photoshopped kinda “fake natty” look back then. of course, there were muscly people then but it wouldnt have been wide spread and it would have only been warriours. even the heavy labourers would not have had the food to build mass like warriours / soldiers would have had.

>>514204498
There is also no markings in the stone, wall, floor or bench to suggest anything had been erected between the seats. Of course they could have had movable sheets or dividers put up.
At the end of the day, they at least had toilets rather than streetshitting

>>514204498
the fact sanitation was such a high priority means they knew disease came from filth
rome knew what was up

>>514203169
yeh, I remember using similar things to make stuff out of yarn in school. not a dodeca but looping it around several points and back again over and over. Can't remember what they were was a long time ago.

>>514203169
Why not make them out of clay or wood if they were just for making gloves?
Also did Romans even wear gloves? I tried to look into that and it didn't seem like there's any accounts of them wearing gloves in cold climates. Maybe mittens, but no gloves. You'd think some Roman would have written about the glove guy that owned the glove maker tool and made everybody gloves for the winter. But nobody did.
They're found more along the frontiers of the Roman empire and not in Italy itself. It's gotta be some weird religious thing. The holes in the object must have held some disc that has since rotten away.

>>514203113 (OP)
You use it to compress the piston on the caliper when you change your brake pads

>>514203113 (OP)
It's a candle holder

>>514203113 (OP)
I've heard like a dozen explanations for this and everybody is convinced that they're right. I'd vote gloves with weapon holders in second place, but those are boring. I like the to think they are either sex toys or Dwemer ruins.

>>514203325
bollocks. reddit tier theory.

Celtic worship or ritual item

>>514204832
More durable

>>514204832
>Why not make them out of clay or wood if they were just for making gloves?
Because you want spindles at the end for thread. Neither clay or wood would be fantastically suited for that.

>>514203113 (OP)
it's a coin measuring apparatus.
you put a right gold coin into a right hole and see how much the jew cut from the outside

>>514203113 (OP)
dick and pussy size grader

>>514203113 (OP)
>What is this thing?
It is a sacred geometric object. 12 sides represent the pantheon's 12 gods. So, it is for decoration. It is not a special tool.

>>514203113 (OP)
Dice

>>514205391
Celts don't worship Greek or Roman gods. And neither were these objects found in the Roman empire

>>514203113 (OP)
It was a training device for metal workers, until you could make a dodecahedron you were restricted to furnace duty, operating the blower an sheit.

For a moment, i thought they were DnD dices.

>>514203807
Two things can be true

>>514205051
Yeah, they were tied to each other with a wire and used as anal beads on the females captured among your savage ancestors

>>514203113 (OP)
The Roman empire was really run by the Greeks.
Roman was Greek for army.

>>514205534
They were found in military camps. Roman soldiers were a diverse bunch. Many were greek.

>>514205853
Loot from dead celts I think. They did metalworking

>>514205534
>>514203113 (OP)
It's basically a paperweight or a fidget spinner. It's a trinket you put on your desk or to decorate a shrine

>>514203113 (OP)
Currency measurers, to detect if people were coin clipping.
The ones with the big holes look like they have different shaped holes. Will be interesting if they matched up with the denominations.

>>514204686

No most warriors were strong but not big and muscled like a body builder. They had to march huge distances for the empire. Carrying heavy stuff. The shield alone being hard. This would burn so many calories most would be strong thin men.

The statues were based on wrestlers. Much closer to body builders in lifestyle.

Soldiers were also despised by many for a lot of history because they produced nothing, and were always starving, sick, and spreading diseases and dirty, and seizing supplies from the population they were around. They were mostly miserable hating life hoping to survive and get some land or way to retire as a farmer after. You couldn't fight them in their huge numbers, so they cause trouble, and they were just seen as a burden nobody wanted nearby. That and the fact they could be used against the homeland is precisely why the empires mostly kept them deployed far from home.
Contrast that with the frequently bathing aqueduct enjoying well feed people in rome.

>>514205995
Roman coins aren't a very consistent size though. The weight and radius varied every few decades massively due to their minting policies being ass.

>>514206288
Scutum aren't actually very heavy.

>>514206459
>be jew
>clip coins and profit
>sell dodecahedrons on the side and profit
>lobby the government to change coins every 10 years
>sell more dodecahedrons and profit
>keep clipping more coins

This is why there's so many of them.

>>514206703
Kek, realistically thought the debasement was always by Imperial decree without Senatorial input.

>>514203113 (OP)
It's for textiles.

>>514203113 (OP)
Ancient, secret Da'ad Yichud technology

>>514203113 (OP)
These are calibration devices for robotics

>>514203169
Just because you can adapt a method for making gloves to this device doesn’t mean that was its true purpose. Saw that video also.

>>514204498
rome in 30 AD
india two thousand fucking years later

>>514203113 (OP)
Ancient, secret Da'at Yichud technology

>>514204686
No, you forget that training was s serious thing, almost every male used to training and wrestle

>>514204686
just look at modern tribespeople still living like their forefathers did, almost all of them have quite trained and muscular physiques, which shouldn't come as a surprise when all they do is swing from trees all day, running around throwing spears at each other and just generally ooga-boogaing all day every day

>>514204686
You must take into account that T-levels were way higher back then, any diet would be cleaner and of a higher quality and maybe even the general genetic make-up of people would have been better. So I do think they would have been muscular/athletic at a level that is above today's standards. Shorter on average, yes, but way stronger and leaner.

>>514203113 (OP)
Doesn't explain the balls on the corners

Early finger box.
Everytime you enjoy your modern fingerbox, you can thank the pioneers.

>>514203113 (OP)
It’s obviously a elaborate finger box.

>>514203113 (OP)
Rome you say? They were used for measuring spaghetti servings mama mia!

>>514207781
they were definitely for taking pictures in the days before camera were invented.

>>514204071
>immediate ad hom
over the target
you flash freeze the world today and find globes all over the place in college professors and scientists homes and studies, at military academies, and you, probably worshipping some jew and having no conception of what a globe is, speculate its for bowling or some other nonsense, rather than understand the more obvious amd pertinent cultural and intellectual implications of the people in question

>>514204124
idk anon but i can definitely imagine jews not having stalls

>>514203113 (OP)
Perhaps they laid these out to fuck up horses hoofs

>>514203133
>abrahamists themselves were obsessed with

Gonna need a source on this one.

>>514204272
the fuckin bronze age ended over a millenia prior lol. they phased out weapons first, around 800 bce (before cuck era), still using bronze armor. but by the time of rome bronze was practically nonexistant in military applications. it was still used as a cheap metal, but wouldnt have been some highly coveted prize

closest thing you had was this which was a cheap certificate issued to non-Romans for their military service
>Diplomas were issued during the Principate period (52–284 AD) to retiring veterans who had served in those corps of the Roman armed forces which enlisted peregrini, that is, inhabitants of the Roman empire who were not Roman citizens (the vast majority of the empire's population in the 1st and 2nd centuries)
>Diplomas were not normally issued to discharged legionaries, as the legions recruited Roman citizens only. However, legionary diplomas were exceptionally issued after the Civil War of 68/69 AD. As an emergency measure, 2 new legions, the I and II Classica (later reconstituted and renamed as I and II Adiutrix, respectively) were formed mainly from naval marines, many of whom did not hold citizenship. At the end of the crisis, these were all awarded Roman citizenship.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_military_diploma

and if you read on, just as a homage to christianity is a jewish psyop /pol/ scholars
>In 212, the Constitutio Antoniniana, issued by the emperor Caracalla, granted Roman citizenship to all the inhabitants of the empire, thus ending the second-class peregrini status. This made military diplomas largely redundant, and indeed the last known auxiliary diplomas date from AD 203
so you can see this practice initially began when the first (successfully) jewish installed emperors began their initial degradation, and then expanded during their most significant offensive against rome with the constituo antoninus, where all the foreigners named goldberg were granted citizenship and got to change their names to Aurelius

>>514209119
>800 bce
Stopped reading here

>>514204572
platonism had an influence beyond rome, especially after the romans got there there would have been influence and even libraries before jews and christians came along to destroy everything. manuscripts wouldve been lost but these trinkets and idols were probably beyond jewish comprehension, as platonism still is.

>Archaeologists have discovered the remains of the oldest public library in Cologne, Germany, "a building erected almost two millennia ago that may have housed up to 20,000 scrolls," reports The Guardian. From the report:
>The walls were first uncovered in 2017, during an excavation on the grounds of a Protestant church in the centre of the city. Archaeologists knew they were of Roman origins, with Cologne being one of Germany's oldest cities, founded by the Romans in 50 AD under the name Colonia. But the discovery of niches in the walls, measuring approximately 80cm by 50cm, was, initially, mystifying.
>"It took us some time to match up the parallels -- we could see the niches were too small to bear statues inside. But what they are are kind of cupboards for the scrolls," said Dr Dirk Schmitz from the Roman-Germanic Museum of Cologne. "They are very particular to libraries -- you can see the same ones in the library at Ephesus." It is not clear how many scrolls the library would have held, but it would have been "quite huge -- maybe 20,000," said Schmitz.
what do you think they would have had in that library?
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/31/spectacular-ancient-public-library-discovered-in-germany

>>514209191
Based. The gall they have, appropriating Christ’s years and then stripping His name from them. Utter trash.
>>514209119
You know they kept using a lot of bronze after the Bronze Age, right?

>>514206939
>military men were weaving baskets and doing laundry and put these in their hampers to ensure their clothes didnt wrinkle
nah, too feminine

>>514207133
christian europe didnt even have these til like the 1700s, and even then they shat off the sides of their keeps and just tossed it into the street like savages. it really does make you appreciate the sheer retardation of christianity's effect on people when they couldnt even figure out sanitation methods standardized nearly two millenia prior. nevermind the plague jews started that wiped out a third of europe which christians ran defense for and allowed to happen and which could have been easily mitigated had people not been worshipping a jew and living like savages

>>514210298
Sorry about your buddy in Minneapolis

>>514209035
all three abrahamic faiths banned possession of these works and publicly denounced them, while im private hyperobsessing and secretly corresponding about them, futily trying to comprehend them in order to better make sense of their own religions

>>514209898
it was considered cheap, like plastic is today. not some coveted possession.

>>514210399
guy had a pentagram and 666 drawn on one of his magazines, thats someone still on the jewish reservation. dad's probably a priest, like hunter schafer's.

now go and do a flip, faggot

>>514203113 (OP)
Boules

>>514203792
>Best idea I've ever heard is they're masterpieces for smiths
>>514204357
>Its a proof of mastery work for a bronzesmith. After they can succsessfuly make it they are no longer students
Far more probable than the retarded knitting theory, which only proves some archeologist cunt liked to knit and forced her hobby on the matter. I also entertain the possibility it is some religious or magical (religion and magic were synonymous then) trinket, as little balls on the ends of lines in words are found in written spells found from the era).

>>514203160
Flat Earth is babby's first talmudic argumentation exercise. All flat earthers are jews.

>>514211207
I don’t think it’s fair to say it was “cheap”. Any metal back then was relatively valuable. Bronze was used for all kinds of things, and skilled craftsmanship was required to work it. Sure, a bronze smith is down the ladder from a goldsmith, but still a craftsman who would have to learn and hone his art.

>>514203325
I heard it was for sorting coins.

>>514203113 (OP)

Probably a pipe fitting joint.

>>514203113 (OP)
I like the idea of it being some sort of metal working test, to be accepted by the guild you make one of these thingums within certain specifications. And it explains why there are so few examples, they'd just be reworked after grading so only a few survived. I know it is one the least viable explanations but "ritual object" is such a boring answer

>>514203113 (OP)
It's obviously a toy. You throw it on a peg and try to get it on the smaller holes.

>>514203113 (OP)
You put those In the dryer to make clothes soft

>>514203113 (OP)
OP they are not roman.
Anything historians try to call "roman" these days is an immediate sus for being a technology of pervious civilization.

>>514207030
>These are calibration devices
Sounds correct. Look like industrial devices.
>for robotics
Probably not for robotics, but likely for a sound or some local atmospheric electricity?.
You have those metal resonator guitars that you can play on.

>>514203113 (OP)
fingerboxes for richfags

>>514213806
>toy
You can make a less expensive toy.
>>514213933
>dryer
You can make a lot less expensive dryer balls . false.

>candles
Can make a lot less complex and a lot less expensive candle holders. false.

its a device to demonstrate dimensions and their relation to each other.

This is the mystery that was never a mystery. Its a knitting tool, and it hilariously never ever went out of use. There is an uninterrupted history of these continually being made and used for their original intended purpose. Only some academic faggots were ever confused about its use.

>>514203113 (OP)
its maily used for tent building but oyu also can make easy fire stands from it ( for many uses of campfires, hanging pots etc all so you dont have to spend so much time to look for branched wood with the perfect proportions
and crafting like knitting aid, weight and thread starter
they are the equivalent to modern screws and nails or adhesive tape ( the comparrison is lacking a bit but we dont have the equivalent anymore beacuse we live indoors and buy industrially produced goods instead of handcrafted stuff

>>514203113 (OP)
Some ancient game or a bow string tightener.

>>514205839
>The Roman empire was really run by the Greeks.
This.
What modern Vatican catholics / jesuits call "Roman" - most of it could have been better called Greek.
A lot of stuff is made up about roman empire.
Also if you look around the world, they are hiding ancient civilizations behind "roman cities" claim .

>according to modern "historians"
>roman army traveled by a bus and trains , as they covered massive territories
>they also dragged behinds hundereds of wood workers , stone masons etc.
>that built hundreds of so called "roman cities"
I mean everything is clearly a BS , the cities clearly were there.
>and if cities were there , they had tech and energy generators , etc

>>514214343
Shove one up your anus and you have proved to the same certainty as the knitting theory that it is an anus stimulator.

>>514203113 (OP)
you shold come for a visit and tour our roman museoums they are really cool
often times they found entire mansions of romans when they dug out basements for homes and you can still even find roman coins and arrowheads with metal detectors in some places

>>514213767
I don’t think they’d be re-worked. I think they served as a “masterpiece” and tangible proof of the smith’s skill. That’s why they’re all similar, but not identical. They would all have the same verbal description:
>fashion a twelve-sided hollow form with graduated circular holes and protruding beadwork

>>514203113 (OP)
Primitive fingerbox

>>514214645
There is no theory, you angry nigger. They were written about, documented, used explicitly in knitting patterns. There is no doubt about this.

>>514214786
>Primitive
>a perfect dodecahedron out of cast iron or bronze
I swear some of you faggots need to hang.
None of you clearly held anything in your hands other than a phone or a burger.

>>514214563
no sou bring a stick to size and stick it through then knit around it with yarn, stick the other sticks in and also knit them so you get a flexible hinge for really sturdy tents, basically you can erect a large tent with one or two ( at max) persons or do constructions like racks to store stuff think clothes racks, or hangers for drying grass and weeds for cooking , also you use it to knit as a starter you can even buy them form plastic in wool and yarn shops these days

>>514214918
That is a lie. Some university cunt with funding water research dollars on shoehorning her hobby into archeology (an already highly dubious “science”).

>>514203113 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76AvV601yJ0

>>514215094
>waaah I don't like it so its wrong
Too bad reality doesn't bend to your faggot whims, loser. There are books. Hundreds upon hundreds of years old. Knitting patterns using the tool. And again, still in use today, always has been. This isn't up for debate. You're just purely talking out of your ass like the nigger probable jew mutt you are.

>>514215444
>hundreds of years old
>Roman

>>514215444
Trolling trips, acknowledged.

>>514203169
literally this. Granny had one of these for knitting mittens. not everything is a conspiracy

>>514203113 (OP)
When I look at it, I feel a strange sensation of holding it, I even feel the bumps and what it feels like to put fingers into the holes. As if I used to hold it, but I don't recall having done so.

ok OP what are these for then?

>>514218157
Amazing, you might also be able to rotate an apple in your head

>>514203113 (OP)
it's for knitting fingers on gloves. a fucking old british granny literally showed the retarded sensationalist news people who spread this shit the real use embarrassing modern historians

>>514219485
The same granny also used it as an anal bead, yet nobody covers that confirmed use.

>>514219652
no one cares about what you and your grandma get up to faggot

>>514219740
You do, you were just talking about her knitting.

>>514203113 (OP)
They are communication spheres for psychic communication with the Annunaki.

>>514203113 (OP)
Theyre for knitting and theyre still used

>>514203113 (OP)
I believe it was the roman equivalent of the slinky. Just a silly toy for kids. That thing could be rolled, thrown, poked with a stick and flung, and best of all it's a finger box. Entirely removed from its original purpose historians would likely wonder what mechanical purpose the slinky had as well.

>>514214364
>>514218039
>>514219485
>>514219819
>>514220047
>knitting
You people need to stop .
They are 100x harder to produce than would be some random knitting tool.
>A good quality dodecahedron out of cast iron or bronze
Why? Why oh why??? would one make a knitting tool that takes 100x more time and is 100x harder to produce than -
than say a wooden one?

>>514203113 (OP)
spaghetti measurer

>>514220264
Ok you got me theyre Jedi holocrons

>>514218039
>Granny had one of these for knitting mittens.
Honey, when they carpet bombed Dresden and killed 100K germans there -
for the only purpose of hiding ancient cities and ancient tech in Dresden.
Your grandma had to hide those tools and PRETEND they are for knitting.
>or face german police - let's be real

>>514220264
maybe all the wooden ones rotted away amso the only ones they find now are the bronze ones

Test to become a blacksmith.

>>514203113 (OP)
It's a relic of an apostle of the son of sol.
The reincarnation of Apollo.
Hippasus of Metapontum follower of Pythagoras the 1st Philosopher.
>Many strange legends have been preserved concerning the birth of Pythagoras. Some maintained that he was no mortal man: that he was one of the gods who had taken a human body to enable him to come into the world and instruct the human race. Pythagoras was one of the many sages and saviors of antiquity for whom an immaculate conception is asserted. In his Anacalypsis, Godfrey Higgins writes: "The first striking circumstance in which the history of Pythagoras agrees with the history of Jesus is, that they were natives of nearly the same country; the former being born at Sidon, the latter at Bethlehem, both in Syria. The father of Pythagoras, as well as the father of Jesus, was prophetically informed that his wife should bring forth a son, who should be a benefactor to mankind. They were both born when their mothers were from home on journeys, Joseph and his wife having gone up to Bethlehem to be taxed, and the father of Pythagoras having travelled from Samos, his residence, to Sidon, about his mercantile concerns. Pythais [Pythasis], the mother of Pythagoras, had a connexion with an Apolloniacal spectre, or ghost, of the God Apollo, or God Sol, (of course this must have been a holy ghost, and here we have the Holy Ghost) which afterward appeared to her husband, and told him that he must have no connexion with his wife during her pregnancy--a story evidently the same as that relating to Joseph and Mary. From these peculiar circumstances, Pythagoras was known by the same title as Jesus, namely, the son of God; and was supposed by the multitude to be under the influence of Divine inspiration."
https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/E4/E4AAFF6DAF6863F459A8B4E52DFB9FF4_Manly.P.Hall_The.Secret.Teachings.of.All.Ages.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjDkojpvqKE

>>514203113 (OP)
I think they placed them under wine amphoras, those wine jugs with the pointed bottoms.

>>514204498
Imagine sitting on the corner seats and playing footsie with your bro while you shit.

>>514204124
>>514204498
Reminds me of "communal sponges". (((Historians))) unironically expect us to believe Romans all wiped their ass with the same stick but figured out plumbing and indoor heating lmao

Who was drowned and rose from the dead 3 days later.
That's why you don't know.
That's why you never learn more about these people.

>>514203113 (OP)
I believe they were a gambling device.
Many times in ancient writings they refer to "casting lots" to make decisions and to gamble, and they also wrote about how the Roman soldiers loved to gamble with each other. However they never say what "casting lots" was. I think these were used like dice in some way to make decisions by chance.

>>514203113 (OP)
its crafting resonator from PoE you absolute retard, what do you think it is? I swear kids these days are so dumb

>>514214942
>t. poorfag who has never seen any of the more expensive avant-garde models

>>514203113 (OP)
"modern art" from 400 BC

>>514203169
every comment after this is pointless, unless it says the same thing so it's still pointless

>>514221556
There were statues of a god found in the same excavation of these dodecahedron.
It was Mithras.
These are proofs that people who were here were capable of this.
It's proof of an advanced civilization.
Of a learned civilization.
Worshipers of Mithras were early Roman Christians and heavily influenced the foundations of Christianity.

>>514203325
If this were the function the objects would show wear from being worked with. They don't have wear marks from usage of any kind.

>>514203325
/solved

I think it is used for masonry or surveying like a plum bob. It would be hanged from a string and additional strings could be run through it or wrapped around the round parts to align bricks being laid into a wall, for example. It could either be placed on a stick (the large holes) or placed on string (the knobs helped tie it), or a mix of both.
I’m guessing most of them were made from wood and no longer exist in the archaeological record, but there are some rare cases of metal dodecahedrons that survive. These were probably used in ritual or as a collector’s item more than in practical usage.

>>514221824
>more expensive avant-garde models
>jewish fake art
>centuries ago without billionaires
I swear you people can't even use the brain sells that you have .

>>514220264
Yes, the knitting theory is typical absurdity from the fake science of archaeology, further evidenced by the broad acceptance from your average midwit poltard, guzzling down programming like tranny cum.

>>514209975
>>military men were weaving baskets and doing laundry
military men were making ropes and chains

>>514222514
Pythagoras was pantheist.
The 5th element is the representation of God "the One", "the Monad."

>>514222514
Excerpt from Wikipedia on plumb bobs;
>The instrument has been used since at least the time of ancient Egypt to ensure that constructions are "plumb", or vertical. It is also used in surveying, to establish the nadir (opposite of zenith) with respect to gravity of a point in space. It is used with a variety of instruments (including levels, theodolites, and steel tapes) to set the instrument exactly over a fixed survey marker or to transcribe positions onto the ground for placing a marker.
I think the dodecahedron was a version of a plumb bob or was used in conjunction with one as a construction/surveying tool.

Like machinists make a cube within a cube as an example of their mastery, perhaps smiths made dodecahedrons as a testament to their skill?
Then they may have been traded as oddities, novelties?

>>514203113 (OP)
those was dey buttplugs

>>514222794
If only we had examples of actual plumb bobs from the time.

>>514203160
Latin was a language for doing business, everyone spoke greek who had something important to say.

>>514223072
>testament to their skill
like the pyramids of egypt but as a testament to individual skill rather than collective.
>traded as oddities, novelties?
carried like a crucifix, it is usually found with statues or other religious objects.

>>514203113 (OP)
The macguffin from baulders gate 3

>>514203169
They were found in banker's vaults and administers homes and offices. I am going with the intellectual trinket that had multiple uses.

>>514203325
Persuasive argument. The different sized holes do lend themselves to sizing dies very well. As similar concept exists for wedding rings. Thanks for this video anon.

>>514203133
this fucking thread again
ITS A GLOVE KNITTING HELP
>https://youtu.be/76AvV601yJ0

>>514204572
>these were found in Germany by the time
because the fucking spaghettis were ALWAYS too pussy for german climate

>>514223699
there are much less cumbersome ways to make gloves.
do we also find knitting needles and looms among religious objects?

>>514222006
>006
For England, James? Also interesting are the roots of the phantom timeline hypothesis extend to several renaissance men skeptical of lost manuscripts. I think the Church rewrote history.

>>514203113 (OP)
Dunno you could put a candle in there and it would look fancy i would assume.

I also like nero.

>>514203113 (OP)
That's a sex toy dude, that thing goes into your ass

So many of these theories just completely ignore the variations like pic related and somehow everyone is OK with that. Bunch of fucking NPCs.

>>514223949
I could use a stop sign to knit a glove.
That must be what stop signs are for.
Romans used nalbinding.
Is that what these people are using?

>>514207082
>You don't understand. I NEED to see a conspiracy in the most mundane things otherwise my life is so EMPTY

>>514224195
that's the water element.

>>514203133
Holy shit you are so fucking stupid it's unreal.

>>514224066
look here:
>>514224327
They are still rewriting it to this day.

>>514203792
this is probably *the most retarded* explanation I've ever heard

>>514224429
Romans did not knit.

>>514224218
if you could stick your retard finger through that stop sign, then it IS fucking helping with the knitting for your dumbass

>>514224195
that "variation" probably helps with knitting the fucking fingers into the complete glove

>>514204832

They thought they wore no underwear until an embarrassing letter from a soldier's wife saying she mailed him some underwear and a few frescos of women wearing it were found. (Apparently the women also wore a type of bra for exercising.)

>>514224498
>the origin of the stop sign is a knitting tool for glove making.

>>514224580
goddamit
your mom really fucked a ton of niggers, didn't she

>>514203113 (OP)
Ancient fingerbox

>>514224639
>it was for knitting
>romans didn't knit
>IT WAS FOR KNITTING

>>514207133
The holy toilet Jesus took a shit on!

>>514224806
>>romans didn't knit

>2000 year old
>still works
no wonder your shitty empire crumbles after barely 80 years
you can't even make concrete that last longer than 50

>>514224347
Your theory fits the evidence best.

>>514224498
>knitting the fucking fingers
There is no evidence Romans had gloves with individual fingers that is a much later technology that smoothbrains assume was around then. Oh and that also completely disregards the massive size variations with some being so small they could barely make gloves for an infant.

Pic shows the swing out trigger guard of an M16/AR15 because even in the 1950s it was expected a soldier would be using mittens.

>>514218970
I can but that's not what I mean. I feel as if I was recalling a memory.

>>514203113 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76AvV601yJ0

>>514203133
>abrahamists
saar

learn to recognize pajeet threads. learn to stop giving (You)s, which end up as rupees, to OPs like this. jews pay pajeets to spam this board en masse with the same globohomo agenda that you're still associating with only jews. since 2023 you are much more likely to see jew noise posted by a pajeet. there are a hundred times as many pajeets as there are jews. if you want any part of the internet to survive, you must detect, reject and redeem pajeets everywhere you find them

>>514203133
Half expected the answer to be you mom dies in her sleep tonight if you don’t reply to this post

>>514225472
Here’s your (you).
Love you, mom.

>>514224195
The variations are because they just need to conform to a basic type.
See
>>514214771

They're almost all found in the Celtic regions of the empire. Very few have been found in say North Africa or the east. They're probably something connected to the traditional Celtic religions.

>>514224403
I'm sure the dodecahedron is somehow tied to jews preventing you from getting laid

>>514225838
I'm married with 3 kids.
The function of my form has been fulfilled.

>>514203325
legit great rope making tool

>>514224017
Grannies tend to be more religious

>>514226083
>look no further
not one was found with any indication that they were used as such.

>>514226187
they were found in military outposts.
among statues of mithras.

>>514222259
bullshit, as the opposing holes are of different diameter
It's a tool for measuring distances when building a road

>>514226682
It is obviously a religious/magik trinket. If people had no clue what a cross symbolized they could find all sorts of practical uses for metal crosses of varied size and decoration dug up thousands of years later as well.

>>514226022
>married with 3 kids
>time for 15pbitd in a schizo thread
lol

>>514203113 (OP)
PvP finger box

>>514226957
The philosophers were obsessed with proofs.
Having this object would be proof that you were capable of creating it, which meant you understood the process of creating it.
It probably had many practical uses as a standard geometry.
>>514227150
my job doesn't require my mind.

>>514203133
Carl Sagan discusses this in one of his Cosmos episodes. Yes, I know he was a jew who promoted the idea of a one-world government. Just contributing.

>>514227423
Academic status symbol?

i was remote viewing the pyramid in antarctica and i saw these things

>>514228542
I’m remote viewing the texts of a homosexual australian.

>>514228808
isnt it annoying sitting down with your stomach fat folded over like that? put some pants on retard

>>514228907
Ok, now I’m nervous.

>>514228474
>Plato put it, that 'this (the regular dodecahedron) the Deity employed in tracing the plan of the Universe.

>>514229035
your circulation needs improvement and you have high cholesterol, try eating more natural foods anon

>>514229141
that is one way to call a dice for dungeons and dragons

>>514203113 (OP)
They were Roman era Funko pops for ancient _Soybois.

I think you have to put coloured glass and light into it. Or lenses.

>>514229141
An orrery then.

>>514229910
Revelation 21:12

>>514203113 (OP)
They are for making temporary nets out of rope to secure cargo without requiring a permenent net.

>>514203113 (OP)
>>514203133
It's a coin sorter. Thats why there is so much wear on the inside, and the outsides are pristine.
https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/504898372/#504898482
>>514203169
Nope. Metal was too expensive. They would have used wood for that purpose. Also where the dodecahedrons were found doesn't match with that. They are only found where large amounts of coins needed to be sorted.

>>514230026
Fucking kikes every time, should’ve known.

>>514222259
Nope. Metal was too expensive for these uses. People would use wood forms for weaving things. Coin sorting is the only economic thing that could support their manufacture and usage.

>>514203113 (OP)
in two thousand years someone is going to find a figet spinner somewhere and start asking the same questions

This is a side cut view of how it would sort coins. Only the ones smaller than the hole on the bottom fall through. Your hands cupping the sides stop coins falling out those sides.

Some amount of training is needed tonuse these. Knowledge of what holes are on what side, and what order to sort them in (smallest to largest)

>>514230504
the NT was written in Nicaea in 325ad.

The hole sizes match up pretty good with Roman coin sizes. Also the variation in dodecahedrion hole sizes geographically, likely matches with there being different coin mints in different regions. If you took a dodecahedrion from area A, and tried sorting coins from A, it would work perfectly.

>>514230713
In an attempt to separate it from the Jewish religion it was a sect of.

>>514203325
bloody genius

>>514203133
I said this here this years ago

>>514230814
I don’t buy a coin a sorter theory, but perhaps to check for coin clipping.

>>514230987
and merge the cults of europe into one religion.

>>514230473
>https://x.com/noodle88raMen/status/1960852793046261960

Have you actually compared the diameter of the holes to known Roman coins? Do Roman coins have a uniform diameter within a small margin of error?

Do all dodecahedrons have the same diameter holes?

>>514231717
read that book.

>>514231717
See >>514230814

>>514231258
Certainly

>>514203440
What kind of faggot needs a device to touch tips? You can just do it.

>>514226022
>The function of my form has been fulfilled.
So you are wild animal?

>>514208941
Those are called caltrops and romans used them

>>514230473
Extremely low IQ post.

>>514203467
you sound like a faggot

>>514204686
>David
>greek statue
wat

>>514231223
>>514230814
Another thing not being mentioned is that these were found almost exclusively in Gaul, not in Rome proper. If this were useful for coinage you'd see it all around, but it being on the northern extent of the Roman empire implies it was either weather-based (like the gloves theory) or cultural.

>>514204498
>>514204739
>>514221192
The explanation for this is that only Christianity taught people to be ashamed of their natural body functions. We all acquired this shame from growing up in a culture that was influenced by Christianity for 2000 years.

>>514204498
>Maybe they just were more comfotrable with communal shitting
That's my theory. If you spend some time backpacking, you return to monke really quick. I think back then when they just had less people were just more accustomed to seeing more and having less privacy.

Like for most hunter gatherers who had a hut or a tipi or whatever, it was one big room with no divisions. So once you had your first kid, you had to be comfortable just boning your wife within sight of your children or just never bone her again. Everyone just had to be comfortable with it because there wasn't another option.

>>514209035
newfag

>>514203113 (OP)
It's for sewing clothes
They literally still use them

>>514237310
Who still uses them? Specifically, should be east to give examples.

>>514226894
no no, the opposite faces all have holes of the exact same diameter, there are 6 different sized holes on the 12 faces placed so that you can chose to fit one of 6 different sized rods snugly through it

>>514230560
>Metal was too expensive for these uses
even to weave gold chain, like in the vid shown in the pic >>514222259 ?
in celtic gaul metal was used quite widely, and celtic gold smiths were quite able to have bronze tools

EVERYONE SAYING THIS IS THE ANSWER ONLY USES THE ONES WITH HOLES
WHY AREN'T THEY DOING THE STUPID SHIT WITH THE ONE THAT DOESN'T HAVE GIANT HOLES IN IT

>>514239440
Jews deflecting from the reality of it being a magical talisman, as whether the magic is real or not they believe it is and don’t want their enemies to acquire it. Similar to foreskin.

>>514238972
This is an explanation I actually believe, because wood doesn't have the strength to do this. Also jewelry making makes enough money to afford this type of tool.

>>514203113 (OP)
Roman dragon dildos.

>>514239440
NPCs always dismiss information that doesn't further their storyline.
>>514224195

>>514206599
>Scrotum aren't actually very heavy.
You haven't felt your mom's then

>>514224195
>>514239440
the icosahedron may have been used differently than with a rod through it like the dodecahedron
it could have been another tool, to tie two weaved chains by using the offset pentagons, who knows

>>514239440
>>514239998
It also could be a test casting. It's still usable for weaving wire.

Still doesn't explain the wear on the interior while the exterior is pristine.

>>514203113 (OP)
Absolute disgrace that 250 people replied to this shit

>>514203113 (OP)
Pocket pussies.

>>514240325
So what is it?
>>514240373
It's like that 7 way ona hole for the bros to share

>>514240325
251

>>514203169
I could see the ones with holes in them being quite useful for erecting tents if the holes on either side are not the same size.

>>514203113 (OP)
Lel

>>514240373
Romans didn’t have pockets, they carried man purses.