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Photo caption: "Two dodecahedra and an icosahedron on display in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Germany."

Roman dodecahedron

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.

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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Sex

Or they're just decorations idk

[–] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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?

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

Classical age Big Chungus.

[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is what I think but I question, why this particular design?

looks cool, hard to make, but not too hard

[–] the_itsb@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.