[ortusdux]

Reminds me of the mystery of the Roman dodecahedrons - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dodecahedron

I was thinking of them yesterday because I noticed one for sale in the antiquities shop in Andor, which brought up all sorts of Earth/Rome/Star Wars cannon questions.

[rmunn]

The best explanation anyone has come up with for those dodecahedrons was as tools for making jewelry from gold wire. Here's a video by an expert knitter named Amy Gaines in which she demonstrates the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lADTLozKm0I

The segment where she uses a replica dodecahedron to make a chain from aluminum wire (stiffer than gold, meaning this would have been easier with actual gold) is entirely convincing. It explains everything about the shape of the objects, both the protruding knobs on the end and also the fact that the holes are of different sizes.

[ortusdux]

There is a decade old paper that compiled over 50 possible explanations, and many more have been hypthesized since. Some of the dodecahedrons are solid, which may negate many of the theorized uses.

https://www.academia.edu/26809664/The_enigma_of_the_dodecahe...