# Guggenberger 2025: The Gallo-Roman Dodecahedron and the Receptacle of All Becoming

> Michael Guggenberger, Stephen Leach, 2025. 4 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The most recent scholarly statement of the symbolic answer.

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# The Gallo-Roman Dodecahedron and the Receptacle of All Becoming

Michael Guggenberger, Stephen Leach, 2025. _The Antiquaries Journal 105, 31–54_.

Relates the archaeology of the dodecahedra to ancient texts, including an overlooked passage of Iamblichus' On the Pythagorean Life, and to the distribution of finds in Gaul and Britain and the Druids' reported interest in Pythagoras, to argue for a Platonic and Pythagorean inspiration.

**Gallo-Roman dodecahedra** Articledoi: **[10.1017/S000358152510036X](https://doi.org/10.1017/S000358152510036X)** Checked against the original0

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The most recent scholarly statement of the symbolic answer.

## Cited by on this site 4 records

[They were religious or magical objects, used for divination or as symbols of the cosmos, perhaps mounted on…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/roman-dodecahedra/answers/ANS0D5Y5WT47TD2/they-were-religious-or-magical-objects-used-for-divination)

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[Texts on the dodecahedron as the figure of the cosmos, including Iamblichus, and Roman reports of Druidic…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/roman-dodecahedra/evidence/EVD0D5Y5X1Y3D6R/texts-on-the-dodecahedron-as-the-figure-of-the-cosmos)

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[Guggenberger and Leach publish the Pythagorean reading](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/roman-dodecahedra/events/EVT0D5Y5TC079MR/guggenberger-and-leach-publish-the-pythagorean-reading)

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[The Gallo-Roman dodecahedra](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/roman-dodecahedra)

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## Cite it

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Guggenberger, M., & Leach, S. (2025). The Gallo-Roman Dodecahedron and the Receptacle of All Becoming. The Antiquaries Journal 105, 31–54. https://doi.org/10.1017/S000358152510036X
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[Find it at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.1017/S000358152510036X)

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