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Has The Roman Dodecahedron Mystery Been Solved?
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| June 3, 2014 by
| Micah Hanks
Posted on 06/04/2014 7:14:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
The Romans were great road builders as well bureaucrats. The far flung empire required the roads for commerce and communications.
Quite clearly it is a postage meter of sorts.
The twelve faces with holes of varying diameters were meant to simply gauge the weight of various sized scrolls. The longer the scroll the bigger the diameter and greater weight. The postage service was priced accordingly.
With twelve faces it doubled as a desk calendar and paper weight. Maybe.
An olive size gauge.
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posted on
06/04/2014 9:14:39 AM PDT
by
Covenantor
("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
To: Covenantor
Hole on top is larger - I’d guess a lamp like device (candle in the top or the top over a wooden pedastal)
Or maybe a vase for dried flowers
course relative size is hard to tell from the picture so that would make a difference too
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posted on
06/04/2014 9:56:16 AM PDT
by
reed13k
(For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothings)
To: Covenantor
Wrong! It is the core from a Vogon warp drive plasma fusion chamber. 3rd generation design, I believe.
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posted on
06/04/2014 10:47:05 AM PDT
by
TexasRepublic
(Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
To: TexasRepublic
Well of course it is. And you just had to let that cat out of the bag now. You cadets are forever forgetting the Prime Directive.
A few eons in stasis on Asimov delta five is in your immediate future. There might be terrans reading this!
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06/04/2014 11:28:35 AM PDT
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Covenantor
("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
To: Dr. Sivana
Obama would press the button just to scr*w America.
To: Covenantor
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06/04/2014 10:01:38 PM PDT
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TexasRepublic
(Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
To: BenLurkin; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks BenLurkin.
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06/05/2014 4:00:01 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: BenLurkin
I’ve always been of the belief that they are the devices used for “casting lots”. Lots were cast in the lap. If you are wearing a toga, normal dice land sideways on edges. With the extra curb-feeler bits, the lots would stop more easily on fabric.
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posted on
06/05/2014 6:50:08 PM PDT
by
arderkrag
(Chaste women, sober men, obedient children, and "sin laws" - the four horsemen of the apocalypse.)
To: al_c
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posted on
06/05/2014 11:03:33 PM PDT
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AdmSmith
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To: SunkenCiv
I’ve not clue one, of course. But, it does make me wonder what archeologists are going to think about all the tchatchky littering shelves in homes of today, once they dig them up in a couple thousand years.
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06/06/2014 12:22:50 AM PDT
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Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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