Posted on 04/03/2022 6:52:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Lost-wax casting, so, yeah, irrespective of whatever else it may have been.
The missing components are the naughty pics that used to be arrayed inside, and could only be viewed from the opposite holes (as it were).
I think the human race *is* a Rambaldi device...
Roman finger puzzle?
Those 2nd century chariots were always breakin’ down.
Thanks.
“occasionally in the grave of a posh woman.”
Witch?
5.56mm
Before mass production with interchangeable parts, everything was that way. There’s an old spinning wheel that one of my cousins had that looks so similar to an early colonial one that belonged to an ancestor that it could have been made by the same person. But probably wasn’t. :^)
I think you got it! Technology to avoid having soldiers having to remember secure knots. Different size holes for different ropes. Could hold multiple ropes coming together. Bet you could find them in all kinds of rigging.
One of Donovan Leitch’s ancestors, apparently.
Memorized astrological sequences -like little recitations- would facilitate the sequencing of the ends of the rope/string order of application. Weaving strands could also be done as well as knot tying.
The edges are too sharp. They would cut the rope once under load.
It is a weight for the Roman spear, the pilum, to increase shield penetrating mass. If you blow up the jpg picture here of the man second from the right, you can see 5 sided object below the iron head of the pilum. You can even see the 5 little balls. yup yup yup..
“Pila come in two models: heavy and light. Pictorial evidence suggests that some versions of the weapon were weighted by a lead ball to increase penetrative power, but archaeological specimens of that design variant are not (so far) known.[”
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/AdamclisiMetope27.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilum#:~:text=The%20pilum%20(Latin%3A%20%5B%CB%88pi%CB%90%C9%AB%CA%8A%CC%83,long%20with%20a%20pyramidal%20head.
I still go with gaming of some form. Bored soldiers can figure out how to gamble on anything.
Gaming piece like dice?
@ about 9:42 Simon Whistler sez..
“When a biologist can’t explain somethings use they cite sex.”
“When an anthropologist struggles they cite religion.”
Ain’t that the truth.
;>)
I agree. I saw a documentary about glove-making tool a long time ago.
Gaming piece, or an early version of the Magic 8 Ball.
Since these are relatively rare, and literally millions served in the legions over the span of hundreds of years (the end of the Roman Empire didn’t come until 1453, when the Turks sacked Constantinople, a mere 39 years before Columbus set sail for the New World), and knots were used everywhere, I don’t think it was used for that, or for any practical use.
Souvenirs, or perhaps gifts, obtained or presented somewhere they served?
At one point in my life, I pretty much always cited sex. Wait, what? ;^)
He mentions the D&D dice in the vid, and actually, that was my first thought as well. :^) The Romans had a game similar to our “Risk”.
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