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Looking on the web,I found out a bit more info :
This Roman object was found near Bonn in Germany.It looks similar to the other,doesn't it?Again,according to the above blog,nobody is sure about what it was used for.....
Here's some more-a recent find in the UKThank you to http://thehumanjourney.net)-
"Work at Smith and Sons Gill Mill gravel quarry started in 1988 and has been ongoing ever since. The focus of attention over the years has been a major Roman settlement lying along a road crossing the Windrush valley in the vicinity of Gill Mill House. From 2001 onwards an area of c 27 ha has been examined as the quarry has extended down the valley south-east of Gill Mill House, revealing more Roman activity."
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Primordial computer mouse?
The prototype for an early diving helmet(slave's head still wedged inside it!)
You can never have enough cup holders, so you spill a bit?
11th century bowling ball.
New male birth control device.
Latest North Korean atomic device.
2nd century physician: "Take two and see me in the morning, if you make it"
New Texas A&M hang-glider.
Ohpp, too late Tribble.
I went and looked ahead without asking. Sorry :)
But I thought it was some sort of weird flower when I heard the name of it...
It looks more like a weird paperweight than anything…
A painful-looking massage ball? A weird-looking candlestick?
i think it looks like one of those toys babies play, the one which you put blocks of different shapes in? lol
An early version of a disco ball?
Rome built 'big'things.Huge monuments and temples-buildings in the capital did have several storeys.Is it something used by the building trade to form either a scaffolding or perhaps a strengthening structure-kind of like this...you can see the limited experience I have in building anything,can't you?!!!
Wait...I thought you said it was a diving helmet...
Or was that your guess?
Some sorta religious something-or-another, used in ceremonies for-Heaven-knows-what.
I've see these b4. No one really knows what they were for, or no one is telling.
idk but i like it. could have held oars .. or something used to till the ground with.. or a torture device. ..
A weird (and painful if played with) football?
A hamster ball?
An utterly useless fish bowl?
A flower pot?
An orb for capturing spirits of long deceased souls?
A wedding ring?
It kind of looks like a face...do you see it?
Many thanks to everyone who has contributed so far-this is proving a fascinating-and entertaining exercise!My divers helmet is a guess-albeit,I guess,an unlikely one!
Oh! I know what it is! I'm sure this time! It's a model of a spaceship! :D
You see, once upon a time, in the jolly land of Rome, people were walking their merry way when they saw a strange object zoom across the sky. It was very fast and very quiet so people hardly noticed it. But one guy glimpsed the ship's shape. Ever since then, that guy tried to construct an exact copy of what he saw that fateful day but was made to quit his project when they burned him at a stake for heresy.
At least, I THINK that's how it was :(
I think he was reprieved on account of his claim -proving true-that it was a design to improve the Roman fleets fighting capabilities-twelve slaves to a rowlock!
man…it is hard…maybe for a torture they made the hands enter at any cost?
Well, the people thought he was worshipping a heathen god and taking orders from him to make the Dodecahedron. They all got paranoid that it was a plot to take over Rome so before anything could happen, they burned him at the stake. So he was burned for heresey AND his ideas.
Look!(Dali has seen one!)
OHMYGOD!!! IT'S PROOF!! o
Only if Dali's convinced..................nope!
Whoo, he has a nice kitty.
Maybe he found it and used it as a toy for his pet ocelot. Dali, I mean.
Or is it a maraguay?
Those Roman's were darn clever folk. It was a prototype of the Pentium chip!
"And we were using it as a communal.....?-do you mean it could have made us MONEY?????"
I've got it!!!!-It's a family portrait holder-for holding 'miniatures'-my evidence....
LOOK!!!!
Yeah, but what was it in old Rome?
They had LOADS of paintings in old Rome-here is one from a wall in Pompeii-all they needed to do was commission an artist to make small ones and place them in the holes....savvy?
Time machine from 2011
They are now building it. when they land in the colloseum 24 bc artists gets inspirated. The emporer, august i believe, made the structure to a holy object.
And the travelers, died by the teeth of the tigers
"I like that explanation...."
Ahhh, I understand.
Wait, but how big is the thing?
It could either be a model for something, or an actual object that people used for some reason.
Remember when I said that it was a model for a spaceship?
what is that stuff anyway..it's like a ball made by stone and had a lot of hole..
I think it’s an early version of a grenade. It’s balanced on all sides to roll towards there enemies in a straight line, theres holes everywhere for the lethal gunpowder or whatever they used to exploside and the the powder inside could have been held together by a thin layer of wax. Because some of them were found with a waxy residue still inside.
It looks like it's mad out of bronze.
I meant "made", not "mad".
I prefer mad.
It’s mad out of bronze?
It's angry cause it's bronze?
Or the brit def, it's crazy cause it's bronze.
Mad Dodecahedron. Hmmm...
It's Mad of bronze.
Ooooh! It's a very early form of the magic 8 ball! And my sources say…
Perhaps is was a whistling cannonball, designed to strike terror before it hit.
Or maybe a big cat toy for tigers and the like.
A trophy of some sort – given only to those who could find a use for it?
Thank you to all for making so many interesting and entertaining suggestions-the grenade(given that the Romans were a 'military minded' people)seems very possible.Here are some stones designed for a Roman catapult currently in The Malton Museum,Yorkshire,England.
A "spirit trap"
A labrinthine device used to ensnare the souls of enemies!
Or something...?
I'm guessing…a really weird sex toy…maybe for men? :cough: <.< >.>
That might explain why nobody talked about it!Of course,there were some unusual religious rituals in those days!
Maybe it's a 5- or 6-person handcuff. How they get their hands in and out of there, I don't know…
Thank you for inviting me Tribble. :) Haven't seen so many interesting comments in a lot of time. :P
LOL @ the 5-person handcuff idea. x) , my vote goes for that one.
But my first thought when I saw it was of a helm, the boat thing. A boat with 12 directions. xD Hey, it can be from a submarine!
Sunshinetaco posted about 9 hours ago
Maybe it's a 5- or 6-person handcuff. How they get their hands in and out of there, I don't know…[/quote]
Well....as for the "out" part, maybe they didn't want them to get out?
Do you know about the primiteve monkey trap? You put a coconut inside a box with a small hole. The monkey can put his hand in to get the nut but it can not take it out with the nut in it. The monkey will not leave the nut and you get the monkey.