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		vee-kay 37 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The secret medieval tunnels that we still don't un... The Roman Dodecahedrons were discussed on HN before. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44565806 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39102069 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24332244 Several theories on their purpose, most plausible (IMHO) is that that they were used for knitting. https://www.reddit.com/r/ancientrome/comments/17a17ju/roman_...

pseudohadamard 37 days ago [–]

And they're all wrong. The real use was with a (now decayed-away) wooden ball inside them which, when shaken, displayed texts like "certum est" and "iterum postulo".

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