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It would be fun if those dodecadedron objects turned out to be old yo-yos.

I'm sad they weren't icosahedrons; it would have been evidence for D&D in Roman times.

I've seen some knitting applications for glove fingers, also.

But there is a surprising counter claim that the dodecahedrons predate the invention of knitting:

> Knitting is a pretty recent invention, time-wise. The earliest knit objects we have are from Egypt around 1000 CE.

This is an important point, and I don't mean to diminishing it. But there was quite obviously a huge analog calculator cottage industry, too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

It's been demonstrated that you can make gloves with them.