Unlikely why?

Here's a video of it being used for that: https://youtu.be/76AvV601yJ0?si=kvdh4ZLiBCmyldPN

I have seen people argue that "they are pretty intricate and expensive things to use only for the purposes of knitting gloves. ". To them, I would like to submit my wife's $1100 sewing machine that definitely gets used, and isn't just some weird status symbol among creative types.

Ofk. They just made them to troll future archaeologist

Just like my code. It's obvious what it does and doesn't need documentation.. until I try to understand it 2 years later.

My mother has a fascination with Roman Dodecahedra, so I 3D printed her one for Christmas. She hasn't knitted any gloves with them yet. (And may never, but she still likes it and has it sitting on the mantle over the fireplace.)

Every Roman has a plumbus in their home. It's clearly a Latin word.

Archeologists when we're ancient:

"Wtf is these?"

"I dunno but I bet my mum could knit a glove with it"

That's a prime chaotic resonator, It's to apply fossils to your gear..

It's a rope junction, with the different holes for different knots and rope bundles, with the spokes serving as rope bend/end points. Presumably it would get weeded out as the places where it was employed either stopped making use of them, like perhaps the weather fabric roof shielding of the coliseum, or ended up using more specialized means, like for sailing.

You don't know what to do with the three seashells?

I like how archeologists never come to the conclusion that something could just be an art trend.

Everything has to have a useful purpose even though we all own stuff with no actual purpose.

Until I looked at the comments here I thought this was the little box thingy that Shadowheart had in BG3.

I like the idea that it was a blacksmith "benchy." Archeologists might do the same with the one 3D printing hobbyists make.

Alright, hear me out...lamp.

What else would it be? It's obviously a Katamari Damacy.

I love how, in this very thread, there are 3-4 pretty confident (and completely different) answers stating, without much doubt, its obvious purpose.

My personal idea is that they are objects created both to flex metalworking craftsman skill and in worship of sacred geometry. Ancient peoples ascribed divinity to the harmonies of the universe, especially the harmonies in mathematics like geometry. The fancier looking platonic solids like dodecahedron and icosohedron have almost magical levels of symmetry built in to them making them both aesthetically pleasing complex shapes. The fact they even exist inspires philosophical and even spiritual thoughts. As far as I understand romans had some very impressive archetecture incorporating mathematical ratios almost constantly, archetects and metal workers may very well have needed to worship geometry as a divine aspect in order to achieve such neurotic levels of mathematics in their aesthetic.

My theory is that they had no practical purpose, they were just a trendy knickknack that eventually fell out of fashion. A Roman equivalent of a fidget spinner or something.

In a few thousand years whatever has become of humanity will be digging up fidget spinners and wondering about them in the same way we do with dodecahedrons. It's not as if anyone will have been preserving fidget spinner media for millennia to explain them.

It's a cat toy. They didn't have laser pointers back then.

I'm thinking coin sorter. You start by sorting the smallest coins through the littlest holes, and work your way up.

I'm a knitter, and making gloves with it just doesn't compute for me. It's too clumsy, with too many extra steps. They'd be making gloves from fabric or leather.

YouTube: ALIeNs ToLd RoMaNs AbOuT ViRuSeS!!

I think you can bring it to Master Rahool for a piece of exotic gear.

The thingamabob needs no description

Looks like my dick would fit. It's a urinal.

Has anyone ever tried gathering them all in one place?

That's SCP-184 and you don't wanna know what it does.

does....does it go in your butt?