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yakalskovich) wrote2008-05-26 12:09 am
yakalskovich) wrote2008-05-26 12:09 am
Picture post -- Roman edition
Now I slept off the stress of the baby orc infestation, here are pictures from Saalburg:
They are expanding the old castellum into an 'archaeological park', and these are two of the new houses they are reconstructing in the vicus. Note the especially authentic roman bricks. (NOT!!!)
In the exhibition on Roman technology and artillery, there was this onager.
And yes, I really would call these evil sumbitches 'artillery'.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
essayel says these are ballista.
This is just a mill, drawn by donkey. But I admired the elaborate cogs. Lots of stuff that got re-invented in the middle ages had already been invented by the Romans.-
One small baby orc in a large Roman courtyard
Now, being helped over the wall by the Little Lady.
Sphinx and the Little Lady by the main gate
And now for the fudz, and the humble pie:
Yes we have some moretum!
(I had claimed they hadn't, andnazgulwears had claimed they had had when we'd been there, and she wins!)
My bounty from the Saalburg, at home: moretum, lucanica sausages, Roman bread (wholewheat, very delicious!) and Roman spiced wine; in replica Samian ware, and on my parent's 1960s dinner table.
The moretum is almost gone; note the leaf decoration on the rim of he bowl
The cup depicts a hare being chased by a hound: this is the hare, making a very unhappy face.
The rear of the hare, and the hound chasing him
Oddly, the hound seems to be on a leash
If you turn it all the way, the hare seems to be chasing the hound.
There was something else about Samian ware that I realised in that museum: not only was it truly mass produced in a few centres and from there shipped to everywhere in the empire, the production was also shifted over time, from Italy further and further out, so the most recent Samian ware is from places like Colchester -- and was imported back to Rome etc. from there! Production was moved further and further out with time, necessitating more complicated infrastructure, because making it in those far-away places and then re-importing it must have been cheaper than making it in the more central regions. So, of course, when civilisation failed, there weren't even potteries!
I can't help but wonder if we and our economy are facing a similar fate...
They are expanding the old castellum into an 'archaeological park', and these are two of the new houses they are reconstructing in the vicus. Note the especially authentic roman bricks. (NOT!!!)
In the exhibition on Roman technology and artillery, there was this onager.
And yes, I really would call these evil sumbitches 'artillery'.
essayel says these are ballista.This is just a mill, drawn by donkey. But I admired the elaborate cogs. Lots of stuff that got re-invented in the middle ages had already been invented by the Romans.-
One small baby orc in a large Roman courtyard
Now, being helped over the wall by the Little Lady.
Sphinx and the Little Lady by the main gate
And now for the fudz, and the humble pie:
Yes we have some moretum!
(I had claimed they hadn't, and
nazgulwears had claimed they had had when we'd been there, and she wins!)My bounty from the Saalburg, at home: moretum, lucanica sausages, Roman bread (wholewheat, very delicious!) and Roman spiced wine; in replica Samian ware, and on my parent's 1960s dinner table.
The moretum is almost gone; note the leaf decoration on the rim of he bowl
The cup depicts a hare being chased by a hound: this is the hare, making a very unhappy face.
The rear of the hare, and the hound chasing him
Oddly, the hound seems to be on a leash
If you turn it all the way, the hare seems to be chasing the hound.
There was something else about Samian ware that I realised in that museum: not only was it truly mass produced in a few centres and from there shipped to everywhere in the empire, the production was also shifted over time, from Italy further and further out, so the most recent Samian ware is from places like Colchester -- and was imported back to Rome etc. from there! Production was moved further and further out with time, necessitating more complicated infrastructure, because making it in those far-away places and then re-importing it must have been cheaper than making it in the more central regions. So, of course, when civilisation failed, there weren't even potteries!
I can't help but wonder if we and our economy are facing a similar fate...