Soldier’s wrist purse discovered at Roman legionary camp(heritagedaily.com)
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Soldier’s wrist purse discovered at Roman legionary camp
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/06/soldiers-wrist-purse-discovered-at-roman-legionary-camp/155513
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Better photos available e.g. at https://www.ceskenoviny.cz/zpravy/2688552
Keep in mind the bright shiny copper color one is just a modern interpretation of what it may have looked like when it was complete, and what was found was just the small fragment next to it.
The article just neglects to mention this directly.
The model seems to make a lot of assumptions based on such a small fragment.
The article just neglects to mention this directly.
The model seems to make a lot of assumptions based on such a small fragment.
It's a "highly detailed reconstruction" (bottom of TFA). Agreed that TFA is light on details and annoyingly disables text selection, which is something I haven't been annoyed by since 2007.
Not only does it manually disable text selection, it also disables the right click menu and most ways of opening the dev tools... for some reason... (you can still reach dev tools using the top right menu on chrome though)
Using "Find" in my browser says those words are on the page somewhere but I cannot find them anywhere.
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Weird. It's the last sentence in TFA.
I think it actually slipped under the ad. Using a browser with Adblock I see it.
>The model seems to make a lot of assumptions based on such a small fragment
this could be said about a shocking amount of historical study
this could be said about a shocking amount of historical study
It would have been bright and shiny when new back then too
Personal items of dead people always make me emotional.. do you know what I mean? Even ~2000 years after the fact.. This person's life ended and all that he was and thought and felt is now gone.. so we do not know much, except that this item was important to him.
You might enjoy this then:
Davenports and kettle drums
And swallowtail coats
Tablecloths and patent leather shoes
Bathing suits and bowling balls
And clarinets and rings
And all this radio really needs is a fuse
A tinker, a tailor, a soldier's things
His rifle, his boots full of rocks
And this one is for bravery and this one is for me
And everything's a dollar in this box
Cuff links and hubcaps
Trophies and paperbacks
It's good transportation
But the brakes aren't so hot
Neckties and boxing gloves
This jackknife is rusted
You can pound that dent out on the hood
A tinker or tailor, a soldier's things
His rifle, his boots full of rocks
Oh, and this one is for bravery, oh, and this one is for me
And everything's a dollar in this box
thank you for that :)
Someone loved that child very much: https://greekreporter.com/2024/07/02/ancient-greek-girl-buri...
I expected the link to be to they https://www.dw.com/en/they-called-her-jamila-the-mystery-of-...
I often find myself overcome with sonder and dustsceawung (the infinite complexity of others lives, and that the dust all around me is made from the lives and civilisations before us [and alongside us])
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/sonder https://medium.com/etch-to-their-own/dustsceawung-866aff795a...
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/sonder https://medium.com/etch-to-their-own/dustsceawung-866aff795a...
I most definitely am reminded of how few people leave an archaeological mark when I read these. Though from my perspective, I see him as one of the special ones, even if we know very little. There are so few folks remembered even a generation later -- even the wealthiest industrialists and movie stars quickly fade.
agree. its quite an intimately human thing
The single photo is remarkably elegant - a spare, almost modernist design.
Pretty slick and functional given the materials of the time. I wonder if it could be made to work today. I think adapting it to cards and cash would make it an awkward package, but maybe if you lay them out along the arm it could work.
Bronze is a VERY nice material. It's a shame it's actually too expensive to see much use in our modern consumerist lives.
It's also easy to steal
Not when it's a solid band around your wrist. Materials in isolation don't tend to have an inherent difficulty level of theft.
Damn, I’ve read “pulse” and was both very confused and very excited!
> The camp was established by the 10th Legion, who was stationed in the area between AD 172 and 180
This is interesting wording. I have a strong urge toward saying either of two other options:
- "The camp was established by the 10th Legion, who were stationed in the area between..." [The Legion is a collection of people]
- "The camp was established by the 10th Legion, which was stationed in the area between..." [The Legion is not a person]
I have difficulty interpreting the Legion as a single person, though. Does the wording in the article work for other people?
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As to the item itself, I find it a little odd to call it a "purse", since it's reconstructed as a solid metal object. That sounds inconvenient and uncomfortable at best.
This is interesting wording. I have a strong urge toward saying either of two other options:
- "The camp was established by the 10th Legion, who were stationed in the area between..." [The Legion is a collection of people]
- "The camp was established by the 10th Legion, which was stationed in the area between..." [The Legion is not a person]
I have difficulty interpreting the Legion as a single person, though. Does the wording in the article work for other people?
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As to the item itself, I find it a little odd to call it a "purse", since it's reconstructed as a solid metal object. That sounds inconvenient and uncomfortable at best.
How do you get that over your hand, and simultaneously have it tight enough to hold the little flap closed?