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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 142 points 5 months ago (9 children)

What a wonderful rabbit hole to go down. My takeaways are it could possibly be used for knitting, but traditional spool knitting that the Grandma uses in the video doesn't show up in history until the 1500s. If the Romans did use it for gloves then knitting has been around much longer than we have evidence of or they were using a different method with the dodecahedron.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 5 months ago (8 children)

I think I also read these were usually found with treasures and with minimal or no wear, so there isn’t any evidence they were used for anything.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 5 months ago (7 children)

The best suggested explanation IMO is that it’s a way for blacksmiths to demonstrate their skill.

“lol stupid scientists don’t know what knitting is” I would file under “actively anti-intellectual”.

[–] WeirdAlex03 19 points 5 months ago

So it's the ancient Roman blacksmith's version of Benchy. Got it

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