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Those little Roman devices nobody can figure out.
Imma come out and say it: they're old timey versions of copper coils or orgonite pyramids. Gnosticism got kinda big for a while and people were buying curses and prayers and stuff from people to write on little bits of broken pottery like little curses you'd write on scraps of paper in middle school. Somebody out there figured out how to weld little metal sacred geometry figurines and people were buying them because they look cool and some of them probably thought they'd resonate with the vibrations of the universe to cure dysentery or whatever.
Antikythera mechanism?
That's Greek and we have a pretty good understanding of them.
I think the person you're replying to is referring to these odd little dodecahedrons that we keep finding in former Roman provinces, but for which we've found no documentation as to what they were for, if anything.
No, those little dice things nobody can figure out at all. They're octagonal with a little ball on each corner.
It's how the Greeks played Minecraft.