# \[Roman\] Dodecahedrons **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 27, 2023, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roman-dodecahedrons/980459 "2023-02-27T21:46:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 239
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Clearly some of the Gallo-Roman bronze workers had far less skill. This one is shoddily constructed in comparison to many of the others, with a weird number of faces (18) and an assembly method similar to the Asian gold beads rather than the more uniform flat sided dodecahedra. [![](https://www.rheagallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CL1473-3-1536x1447.jpg) ](https://www.rheagallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CL1473-3-1536x1447.jpg) > **[Polyhedron - Rhéa Gallery](https://www.rheagallery.com/inventory/classical/polyhedron/)** > > Bronze Gallo-Roman, 1st century AD Ø:  3,5cm A very rare, most intriguing and skillfully cast Gallo-Roman (Celtic) bronze polyhedron, with eighteen flat pentagonal faces, each having a circular hole of varying size in the center and small... --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roman-dodecahedrons/980459)._