Soldier's wrist purse discovered at Roman legionary camp

(heritagedaily.com)

70 points | by bookofjoe 4 days ago ago

13 comments

  • cyrusmg 5 hours ago

    Better photos available e.g. at https://www.ceskenoviny.cz/zpravy/2688552

  • apples_oranges 2 hours ago

    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.

    • coldtea an hour ago

      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
    • bloqs 2 hours ago

      agree. its quite an intimately human thing

  • kaonwarb 8 hours ago

    The single photo is remarkably elegant - a spare, almost modernist design.

    • andrewflnr 7 hours ago

      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 2 hours ago

        Bronze is a VERY nice material. It's a shame it's actually too expensive to see much use in our modern consumerist lives.

  • volemo 7 hours ago

    Damn, I’ve read “pulse” and was both very confused and very excited!

  • dfedbeef 8 hours ago

    Seems jingley

    • ggm 7 hours ago

      Wrap the silver in cloth. Can't open without removing from arm so within limits stops petty theft.

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