RomanArmyTalk

Avete,

There's no article but you can read the captions below the photos.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7128553.stm

Only the back and legs survive.

~Theo

Wonderful find, and an example of amazing items still in there. But why call it a throne?

Because it only becomes a chair if there are cooler things found to talk about. Don't you love archaeological marketing? hock: hock: :roll: :roll:

LOL...no kidding. Looks like chair to me.

Technically the Greek "thronos" was used in antiquity for any high-backed chair with animal-clawed feet. It was a high status piece of furniture but didn't carry the specific meaning of 'formal seat of a ruler' that it has now.

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As well as.... http://www.tokyomango.com/tokyo_mango/2 ... eated.html

They would have to come in groups of at least four to cater to the Roman taste for 'communal crapping.' Also, where does the 'sponge on a stick' fit?

Surely it must be a sacrificial chair ?

Quote:As well as.... http://www.tokyomango.com/tokyo_mango/2 ... eated.html

You may scoff Jim, but I took a photo of a rather fine marble latrine at the BM that was fashioned in the shape of a chariot! Looks like a wheelchair!

Here it is.. Now that's what I call a "Throne" :wink: :lol:

I guess Elvis wasn't the only one that liked to crap in style.

Hey, a marble throne.........brrrrrrrrrrrrr hock: