Photo caption: “Two dodecahedra and an icosahedron on display in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Germany.”
A Roman dodecahedron or Gallo-Roman dodecahedron is a small hollow object made of copper alloy which has been cast into a regular dodecahedral shape: twelve flat pentagonal faces, each face having a circular hole of varying diameter in the middle, the holes connecting to the hollow center. Roman dodecahedra date from the 2nd to 4th centuries AD and their purpose remains unknown. They rarely show signs of wear, and do not have any inscribed numbers or letters.
Maybe they were used together with rope/chain to try to reign in their grotesquely vivid Italian body language?
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“i just think they’re neat”
she do on my deca til i hedron
It’s how people played D&D before dice were invented
Sex
Or they’re just decorations idk
Or they’re just decorations idk
This is what I think but I question, why this particular design? These things were found all over the Empire, why did this particular shape become so popular in Rome? We it some kind of inside joke? Cultural reference? Meme?
Classical age Big Chungus.
This is what I think but I question, why this particular design?
looks cool, hard to make, but not too hard
I like to think I’m pretty creative, but I’m struggling to figure out how these could possibly benefit a sexual experience, so now I’m wondering what you owls are getting up to out there in the forest with arcane, ancient shapes.
You don’t need to tell me, I’m just saying - I strongly suspect you all are doing crazy sex magick rituals out there, and I support it. Lmk if there’s anything I can do to help - bells, candles, herbs, wine, whatever.
The smallest ones are apparently about 1.6 inches wide, so someone could definitely fit it in a couple of orifices if they wanted to for some reason, without trauma from stretching (but probably from cuts and rubbing). With the openings, you could get some string and make a type of bead.
I’m sorry this is really gross and I’m not even into that sort of thing, I was just think of it purely as a creative exercise and then I looked at what I wrote.
for the curved one, if they actually worked out the angles and rate of curvature, that’s pretty cool
The ancient roman equivalent of desk decoration. Something you think looks nice, so you bring it to the office and set it on your desktop.
That or as someone else said you can do some s*x with it.
I just think of the meme about an old granny using these to knit.
https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Prime_Alchemical_Resonator
You use them for fossil crafting, of course.
Real ones know
Idk, they look like they’re meant to hold the prince of an alien race imprisoned in an astral realm to me.
Probably something mundane and useful, but in a weird culture way that seems stupid.
Like those are for wiping your ass or something.
You’re thinking of the three seashells
Like those are for wiping your ass or something
don’t look up the xylospongium
Same, but also romans would have had very high fibre diets, not our modern greasy beer poops. So it’s probably not as bad as you think, but I would still struggle
no offense I’m not sharing a communal poop sponge with someone just because they eat high fiber
I said I wouldn’t either, why would I be offended?
I…I just don’t see why you’d bring up high fibre diets lol
Huh, I knew I vaguely saw the BG3 artifact from somewhere before
they’re made to be pondered
