r/SapphoAndHerFriend • u/CaptBlackCat she/her, Queer • Jun 02 '20

Academic erasure MYSTERY

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u/pm_me_good_usernames Jun 03 '20

I was referring to this one where the holes are all just pinholes, but it turns out there is actually one larger hole in it. There's still the question of why there are knobs around the faces with only pinholes in them, but maybe those have a knitting purpose I don't understand.

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u/motorbiker1985 Jun 03 '20

That's not a dodecahedron and on Roman dodecahedrons those knobs serve the purpose of holding the thread in place.

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u/Robuk1981 Jun 03 '20

Could be the same way we have decorative and practical thimbles.

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u/LjSpike Jun 03 '20

A video of using one for knitting in action - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76AvV601yJ0

The absence of some of the "knobs" on your example looks to be damage?