blessmycottonsocks
Antediluvian
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- Dec 22, 2014
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For mashing beer? The Egyptians loved a beer.
The schist disk appeared on today's Quora and a beer-making tool was one of the suggestions: "A device for separating out the wort by plunging it slowly up and down in the vat. Intriguingly, at least one beer making site in Egypt has vats that are between 60 cm and 80cm in diameter, pretty much a perfect fit for this object."
Other suggestions were an incense burner, prototype composite chariot wheel, spool for twisting ropes, agricultural seed dispenser and, probably my favourite suggestion: "Given that nobody ever used it again, it was probably used for something very stupid. (schist for brains)"