it is a ranging device for the military.
BUT it was a forewarning of : CORONAVIRUS
Gee, maybe “art”?
A ropes and knots quick wrap hub
incense burner?
Geez, it’s a dinglehopper. Everybody knows that.
It can’t be a measuring device for a brothel because the holes are too small.
Fidget spinner. Lol
Wasn’t this determined to be a aid to knitting gloves?
Interesting, it says no two they found was exactly alike.
A time traveler dropped a model of the coronavirus.
Clearly a Rambaldi device....call Sloane.
It’s either a primitive sextant or a disgronificator.
5.56mm
looks like proto-Rubik’s cube — it didn’t last long, though, because it was too easy to figure out.
WHAT IS IT???
Mystery of the Roman World!
Enjoy a frosty Blizzart!
Exit 221 • 10 miles
Imagine what would happen if some one threw a bunch of them before a calvary charge? When horses stepped on them, they would lose their footing and tumble, causing the ones behind to bunch up.
A military devise to defeat or break up calvary charges.
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?