[HN Gopher] Soldier's wrist purse discovered at Roman legionary ...
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Soldier's wrist purse discovered at Roman legionary camp
Author : bookofjoe
Score : 104 points
Date : 2025-06-28 17:20 UTC (4 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.heritagedaily.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.heritagedaily.com)
| kaonwarb wrote:
| The single photo is remarkably elegant - a spare, almost
| modernist design.
| andrewflnr wrote:
| 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.
| hoseja wrote:
| Bronze is a VERY nice material. It's a shame it's actually
| too expensive to see much use in our modern consumerist
| lives.
| is_true wrote:
| It's also easy to steal
| dfedbeef wrote:
| Seems jingley
| ggm wrote:
| Wrap the silver in cloth. Can't open without removing from arm
| so within limits stops petty theft.
| volemo wrote:
| Damn, I've read "pulse" and was both very confused and very
| excited!
| cyrusmg wrote:
| Better photos available e.g. at
| https://www.ceskenoviny.cz/zpravy/2688552
| apples_oranges wrote:
| 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.
| bloqs wrote:
| agree. its quite an intimately human thing
| coldtea wrote:
| 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
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNwC8ETa0pg
| MrBuddyCasino wrote:
| Someone loved that child very much:
| https://greekreporter.com/2024/07/02/ancient-greek-girl-buri...
| fhsm wrote:
| I expected the link to be to they https://www.dw.com/en/they-
| called-her-jamila-the-mystery-of-...
| ljf wrote:
| 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...
| DragonStrength wrote:
| 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.
| donatj wrote:
| 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.
| jihadjihad wrote:
| 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.
| donatj wrote:
| Using "Find" in my browser says those words are on the page
| somewhere but I cannot find them anywhere.
| jihadjihad wrote:
| Weird. It's the last sentence in TFA.
| donatj wrote:
| I think it actually slipped under the ad. Using a browser
| with Adblock I see it.
| voidUpdate wrote:
| 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)
| piombisallow wrote:
| It would have been bright and shiny when new back then too
| permo-w wrote:
| >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
| voidUpdate wrote:
| How do you get that over your hand, and simultaneously have it
| tight enough to hold the little flap closed?
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