icon meme

[ursula]

jesse_the_k asked about my icosahedron icon.

My icon is this Roman die, which sold at auction in 2003. I've definitely seen other people who made icons based on the news stories that came out around that time! I found a couple of similar artifacts while I was poking around for this one's provenance: here's an earlier Roman Egyptian icosahedron die in the Met, and here's a collection of Roman bronze dodecahedra with an icosahedron.

I usually use this icon for math or rpg posts, though I suppose it would work for classics posts, too.

Comment if you would like me to ask you about one (or more) of your icons!

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I am delighted

[jesse_the_k]

...and amazed, and reminded there is nothing new under the sun.

Which is soothing, in a way: we've been in shit before, we may very well survive.