What's it for!?

Growing strawberries, or a cooking instrument, to measure different portions. Each hole has a different diameter measure different portions. If I can find one, I would use for pasta, but of course they had no pasta at the time.

The knobs hold in place, hands-free, to do the measurements.

medievil docking device..

I've seen these before, I read somewhere that a knitting person thought it looked like a tool to facilitate knitting the fingers for gloves, I think it looks like it could be used to setup something like a tent or scaffolding or something along those lines.

Well it just proves how old Dungeons and dragons is doesn't it🤷

Now they just need to find the other 6 dice😏

Maybe it was used in making plates or bowls or dishes out of clay eta oh nvm if itso nly 3 inches. Maybe in jewelry making then?

or how about for help making these?

I've heard of those things before. I think it was decorative but who knows. Love the fact that no one can say for sure. That's pretty cool.

It looks like a die for playing games.

Perhaps RuneQuest isn't that old. ;)

maybe it didn't have a use. someone might've just wanted to make an interesting looking piece of art?

Used for knitting gloves on the battlefield and at home?

It looks like a divers helmet for someone with a very thin neck and a small head.

Easy, it's a tea infuser. Next.

Coffee cup holder ..

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COOOOL

Food holding toy for ancient roman pet bunnies.

Could be the design for Covid-19-BC.

It just seems to be a mystery

[u]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dodecahedron#Purpose[/u]

[quote]No mention of dodecahedrons has been found in contemporary accounts or pictures of the time. Speculative uses include as a survey instrument for estimating distances to (or sizes of) distant objects, though this is questioned as there are no markings to indicate that they would be a mathematical instrument;[6] as spool knitting devices for making gloves[3] (though the earliest known reference to spool knitting is from 1535,[7][8][9] and this would not explain the use of bronze or the apparently similar icosahedron which is missing the holes necessary for spool knitting); as part of a child's toy;[3] or for decorative purposes.[10]

Several dodecahedra were found in coin hoards, providing evidence that their owners either considered them valuable objects, or believed their only use was connected with coins.[11] It has been suggested that they might have been religious artifacts, or even fortune-telling devices. This latter speculation is based on the fact that most of the examples have been found in Gallo-Roman sites.[12][13] It has also been suggested that they might have been an object to test the skill of a metalsmith, perhaps as part of a portfolio to demonstrate their capabilities to customers or as a way to qualify for a certain status in a collegium (guild). This speculation is based on the historic cost of bronze and the level of skill necessary to cast such an object.[3] Some 19th-century antiquarians speculated that they might be weapons, such as the head of a mace or a metal bullet, but other scholars have suggested that the dodecahedra are too light to make an effective weapon.[3] [/quote]