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Sheridan@lemmy.world to Videos@lemmy.worldEnglish · 30 days ago

These Have Been Found All Across Ancient Rome (Nobody Knows Why)

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These Have Been Found All Across Ancient Rome (Nobody Knows Why)

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Sheridan@lemmy.world to Videos@lemmy.worldEnglish · 30 days ago
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    They’re for knitting gloves. It’s been solved for a while

    https://evafj77.medium.com/ancient-mystery-roman-dodecahedron-mystery-resolved-de64e5cc4054

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      According to some random guy on medium. I think it’s a solid hypothesis but far from proven or “solved”.

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      No not at all.

      If they were for making gloves there’d be more clues for it. There aren’t.

      I could use a car to cook an egg, doesn’t mean that’s why it was made.

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        Everybody knows you use GPUs to cook eggs, dont be silly

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      Watching the video of him struggling with it doesn’t really sell the point.

      It not being an efficient tool could explain why they’re not around, if that’s the case.

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      Knitting is medieval, and not attested to until 11th century CE Egypt.

      As spool knitters go, the dodecahedron are terrible for that purpose. The extra faces are useless. This idea has been explored and rejected, because it does not match Roman textile practices.

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