Dodecahedron

Just been to Lincoln Museum to see the dodecahedron.

J. P. Gilliver

2024-05-11 16:30:05 UTC

Post by Tonysmith
Just been to Lincoln Museum to see the dodecahedron.

Any thoughts as to its purpose?

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Mike McMillan

2024-05-11 20:01:25 UTC

Post by Tonysmith
Just been to Lincoln Museum to see the dodecahedron.

Any thoughts as to its purpose?

It was constructed to provide a spelling exercise.

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Sam Plusnet

2024-05-12 01:25:12 UTC

Post by Tonysmith
Just been to Lincoln Museum to see the dodecahedron.

Any thoughts as to its purpose?

It was constructed to provide a spelling exercise.

It was made for a large gambling syndicate.
There was once a number in each of those holes, and if you had placed a
wager on the number which ended up on top, then your number had come up.

Gambling mad, some of them Romans.

--
Sam Plusnet

BrritSki

2024-05-12 09:06:33 UTC

Post by Tonysmith
Just been to Lincoln Museum to see the dodecahedron.

Any thoughts as to its purpose?

It was constructed to provide a spelling exercise.

True, but it was in fact a clock.

The different sized holes were to accomodate the different sized candles
you would need each month for a full day's worth of burning.

That's my theory and imo it's a good'un.

john ashby

2024-05-12 13:03:38 UTC

Post by Tonysmith
Just been to Lincoln Museum to see the dodecahedron.

Any thoughts as to its purpose?

It was constructed to provide a spelling exercise.

It was made for a large gambling syndicate.
There was once a number in each of those holes, and if you had placed
a wager on the number which ended up on top, then your number had come
up.
Gambling mad, some of them Romans.

True, but it was in fact a clock.
The different sized holes were to accomodate the different sized candles
you would need each month for a full day's worth of burning.
That's my theory and imo it's a good'un.

Why would you burn candles in the day?

Or

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john

BrritSki

2024-05-12 13:28:09 UTC

Post by john ashby

Post by Tonysmith
Just been to Lincoln Museum to see the dodecahedron.

Any thoughts as to its purpose?

It was constructed to provide a spelling exercise.

It was made for a large gambling syndicate.
There was once a number in each of those holes, and if you had placed
a wager on the number which ended up on top, then your number had
come up.
Gambling mad, some of them Romans.

True, but it was in fact a clock.
The different sized holes were to accomodate the different sized
candles you would need each month for a full day's worth of burning.
That's my theory and imo it's a good'un.

Why would you burn candles in the day?

To tell the time. See that word "clock" up there ?

Sam Plusnet

2024-05-12 18:47:00 UTC

Post by Tonysmith
Just been to Lincoln Museum to see the dodecahedron.

Any thoughts as to its purpose?

It was constructed to provide a spelling exercise.

It was made for a large gambling syndicate.
There was once a number in each of those holes, and if you had placed
a wager on the number which ended up on top, then your number had come
up.
Gambling mad, some of them Romans.

True, but it was in fact a clock.
The different sized holes were to accomodate the different sized candles
you would need each month for a full day's worth of burning.
That's my theory and imo it's a good'un.

You could do 3 Two Ronnies "Four Candles" sketches at once.

--
Sam Plusnet

BrritSki

2024-05-12 19:00:20 UTC

Post by Tonysmith
Just been to Lincoln Museum to see the dodecahedron.

Any thoughts as to its purpose?

It was constructed to provide a spelling exercise.

It was made for a large gambling syndicate.
There was once a number in each of those holes, and if you had placed
a wager on the number which ended up on top, then your number had
come up.
Gambling mad, some of them Romans.

True, but it was in fact a clock.
The different sized holes were to accomodate the different sized
candles you would need each month for a full day's worth of burning.
That's my theory and imo it's a good'un.

You could do 3 Two Ronnies "Four Candles" sketches at once.

That suggestion is greeted with O's.

Rosie Mitchell

2024-05-12 12:09:13 UTC

Post by Tonysmith
Just been to Lincoln Museum to see the dodecahedron.

Any thoughts as to its purpose?

The Romans played role-playing games in which they explored underground areas
outside the empire confronting monsters and accumulating gold.

Rosie

Paul Herber

2024-05-12 19:02:37 UTC

Post by Rosie Mitchell

Post by Tonysmith
Just been to Lincoln Museum to see the dodecahedron.

Any thoughts as to its purpose?

The Romans played role-playing games in which they explored underground areas
outside the empire confronting monsters and accumulating gold.

Plughus Maximus

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Regards, Paul Herber
https://www.paulherber.co.uk/

Joe Kerr

2024-05-12 19:06:05 UTC

Post by Tonysmith
Just been to Lincoln Museum to see the dodecahedron.

Any thoughts as to its purpose?

I'm going with it being a practical joke: A totally useless, ridiculous
object that was deliberately buried (along with the other, similar
items) to confuse future generations of archaeologists.

--
Ric

Sam Plusnet

2024-05-12 23:39:03 UTC

Post by Joe Kerr

Post by Tonysmith
Just been to Lincoln Museum to see the dodecahedron.

Any thoughts as to its purpose?

I'm going with it being a practical joke: A totally useless, ridiculous
object that was deliberately buried (along with the other, similar
items) to confuse future generations of archaeologists.

Back in The Good Old Days, a proper archaeologist would have declared it
to be a "ritual object" without a second thought.

--
Sam Plusnet

tonysmith

2024-05-16 10:41:38 UTC

Post by Sam Plusnet
Back in The Good Old Days, a proper archaeologist would have declared it
to be a "ritual object" without a second thought.

Or even "ritualo object ?"

Joe Kerr

2024-05-12 19:13:10 UTC

Post by Tonysmith
Just been to Lincoln Museum to see the dodecahedron.

Any thoughts as to its purpose?

How big is it? Has anybody suggested it could be some kind of male
chastity device where the leather straps have rotted away?

--
Ric

Tonysmith

2024-05-12 22:43:02 UTC

They are works of high craftsmanshkip and cannot have been cheap enough for use by the common people.

Jim Easterbrook

2024-05-13 07:17:40 UTC

Post by Tonysmith
Just been to Lincoln Museum to see the dodecahedron.

Any thoughts as to its purpose?

Measuring out spaghetti.

--
Jim <http://www.jim-easterbrook.me.uk/>
1959/1985? M B+ G+ A L- I- S- P-- CH0(p) Ar++ T+ H0 Q--- Sh0

Tonysmith

2024-05-15 20:04:11 UTC

It's not much bigger than a cricket ball. I suppose one might throw it.

Nick Odell

2024-05-16 10:16:51 UTC

Post by Tonysmith
It's not much bigger than a cricket ball. I suppose one might throw it.

Perhaps, if it had been discovered in the middle ages, the Tudors
might have invented a game and called it twelveis.

Nick

Sam Plusnet

2024-05-16 17:57:46 UTC

Post by Nick Odell

Post by Tonysmith
It's not much bigger than a cricket ball. I suppose one might throw it.

Perhaps, if it had been discovered in the middle ages, the Tudors
might have invented a game and called it twelveis.

Nothing to get XII-ted about then?

--
Sam Plusnet

Nick Odell

2024-05-12 11:44:59 UTC

Post by Tonysmith
Just been to Lincoln Museum to see the dodecahedron.

I thought that they had been declared extinct by the end of the
seventeenth century?

Nick

Mike McMillan

2024-05-12 15:33:43 UTC