Wednesday, July 10, 2024

 Greetings all,


I don't know how many of you follow history news, but the "Mystery of the Ancient Roman Dodecahedrons" has been popping up again everywhere in the news for the last two weeks. "What WERE they? We just don't KNOW!"

Yeah, yeah.

In a truly superb piece of historical reconstruction, it seems a pretty definitive answer is HERE: 


They seem to have been used for making elaborate gold wire chain, which is why they have been often recovered in sites related to gold.

When you can do effortless and excellent work like that THIS I think the "eternal mystery" of the dodecahedrons is complete click-bait/news filler at this point. Apparently they also work for a type of hand-knitting with string or yarn, so they could be used in both situations.

My guess is they were "lost to history" simply because after the end of antiquity society was so different there was less skilled art with gold happening.

Do check out the video!

-Marcus Cassius Julianus
www.byzantiumnovum.org
 

 


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