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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…
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.
The best suggested explanation IMO is that it’s a way for blacksmiths to demonstrate their skill.
“lol stupid scientists don’t know what knitting is” I would file under “actively anti-intellectual”.
Kinda like the little nib on top of old saw blades. It doesn’t really do anything, but if they can make that complex little nib, then they can probably make pretty decent sawblades too.
I’ve always heard that the nib was meant to help you gauge when to stop your pull stroke and start your push stroke so that you use the whole saw and don’t wear the teeth unevenly. Is this not the case?
Nib only exists to prove your saw maker was a competent professional
Google says it’s a vestigial ornament to represent a handle from when steel quality was poor.
That is all saws used to have two handles because of poor steel quality. The nib was where the front handle would attach. Later the front handle wasn’t needed but the nib remained and was later shrunk.
A toolmaker could put a nib and still have bad quality teeth. Doesn’t seem like you would judge quality by the nib.
Iirc it was only found in northern areas. Can’t see demonstrations of skill being only there.
Maybe the ones elsewhere were too busy being productive.
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.
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Possible Ritual Use™ 😸
Love these, though I’ll never remember the name or how to write it …
Source: it was revealed to me in a dream
It’s a ghastly that ran out of gas.
You put fossils in them dude
Dang it, someone thought of it already
