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by blah-yeah 874 days ago
My guess:

Wax, wooden, or cork plates plugged into each side via the large holes.

On the the replaceable plates were some sort of painted or engraved label, indicating something such as:

- a dice or other game piece

- a fortune or God (some other mythical image)

- some other game of chance type option