This week’s mystery object is one I’ve been sitting on for about seven years and I’ve held off posting it because I think it might not be much of a challenge for some of you. However, it’s an incredibly cool object and I think it’s time to share it:
If you know what this is, please keep your answers nice and cryptic so the people who don’t recognise it can enjoy the challenge. Have fun!
Zygoma 
Is it found 80,000 km under the sea?
A cross section of the intricate design of Captain Nemo’s submarine!
from ‘100 tentacles beneath the sea’ by Jules Verne
Well, it looks arthropodish. Out of Alien actually.
If it’s seven years is it pre-Dead Zoo?
Yes, it’s from the collection of the person with the high sex drive.
…Probably didn’t need to be cryptic there too. 😉😆
you ought naut give such a clue… but one of three, which shall you be?
Everyone else’s hints are too good…so I’m going full geometry reference here…1:1.618. Tangential perhaps but I like to keep my tentacles in the other fields.
I see now that’s a well-known factoid, but not actually true: “The measured ratios ranged from 1.24 to 1.43”
Wow – you all are so so cryptic… and I have absolutely no idea what this is….a mask for the gorilla king in the Congo? I’m close aren’t I?
I suspect Harry Potter and the Chambered… will be a valid clue. Of course I could be completely wrong.
??? Egyptian golden Trilobite, but why???
??? Egyptian golden Trilobite, but why???
No, it wasn’t me that said this before.
The black centre bit is a man-made piece that’s holding it together?
Nope
WHAT is the size of this lovely item (she is saying gritting her teeth)?
Roughly 6cm across
Well yes, Captian Nemo’s sub obviously, but which of the four living species ?
I’d suggest that since navel gazing was closed off to this guy he’d have to be none other than the second emperor of Rome.
aargh! king, not emperor