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Re: Provincial campfollower (prostitute) kit - Carlton Bach - 11-07-2005 Whoa... McBride and Newark did a whole line of books together, didn't they? Looks like something right out if a comic book, those mighty-thewed warrior gods. I'll se if i can get it, just for larks Thanks Re: Provincial campfollower (prostitute) kit - Arthes - 11-09-2005 Quote:Here's a page on a modern woman being made up into a Roman woman. May be of some use for makeup, etc?Something I am thinking on doing for female LH 'demonstrations' during next season - although in Roman military displays, can't be a female even with Sarmatian ancestry...:evil: Roman soldiers with make up and unshorn hair .....hehe regards Arthes Re: Provincial campfollower (prostitute) kit - Arthes - 11-09-2005 Quote:It's my daughter and a couple of her friends after a night out a few years back.......I was the one looking out of the door......lolCarlton Bach:30abq32c Wrote:If I'm not mistaking it comefrom Ancient Celts Concord: http://img331.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... s012ry.jpgComerus Gallus Romus:30abq32c Wrote:I dont have the Book, but this for sure are Prostitutes dressed in yellow & blue; plate by McBride (the two girls actually resemble them in looks - not in anything else..... :lol: ) The guy in blue is a musician......and I don't know where Sean Connery came from... :lol: hehe Re: Provincial campfollower (prostitute) kit - hoplite14gr - 11-10-2005 I got the book nice image. Shows that nothing changes. The authorities always spoil peoples patries! :lol: Kind regards Stefanos Re: Provincial campfollower (prostitute) kit - Arthes - 11-12-2005 Greetings, Quote:someone has to have the girls........Arthes:3tb9hxlz Wrote:http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/C ... s290ub.jpg Would you like to meet my Papa, he is called Philip II.....er Gioi..... :lol: Re: Provincial campfollower (prostitute) kit - Uwe Bahr - 11-14-2005 Hi Arthes, Comerus, it might be of interest for You that one guy from Berlin ( http://www.zinnfiguren-stefan-loewe.de ) has transformed the nice little scene into a flat diorama, dating the time corridor back to the first century CE, and even Sean Connery looks a bit younger ... :wink: [url:1j6z58sp]http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/Comerus/ancientcelts290ub.jpg[/url] [url:1j6z58sp]http://www.zinnfiguren-stefan-loewe.de/images/dior/Beneficiar.jpg[/url] Greets - Uwe Re: Provincial campfollower (prostitute) kit - Arthes - 11-22-2005 Quote:Hi Arthes, Comerus,Oh, yes......but where have I gone.......... lol: Re: Provincial campfollower (prostitute) kit - Uwe Bahr - 11-22-2005 Hi Arthes and Comerus, Arthes, referring to Your former avatar (I mean that with the beautiful lady not the warrior with the late Roman helmet) I thought You were the one with the blue dress and white scarf on the left ... Comerus, good interpretation! Greets - Uwe Leather (ahem) Dildos? - tlclark - 11-25-2005 Carlton Bach, I can't believe I am asking this...but... :oops: I just need to know. Quote:leather phalluses for use as dildos Where on earth did you get this reference? It might be relevant for my studies on the lorica musculata, and YES I'm serious. If they can make molded leather phalluses, they can certainly make molded leather armor. Quote:(these would be hell to reconstruct - I've been working on a hardening technique that stands up to warmth and moisture) I don't want to know how you "field" test your "reconstruction", hock: but please Let me know what you've found out. I am going to attempt to make molded leather tongue pteruges this January and I will happily share any thing I learn for your...ahem...little project. hock: Re: Leather (ahem) Dildos? - Carlton Bach - 11-26-2005 Quote:Carlton Bach, Johns, Catherine: Sex or Symbol. Erotic Images of Greece and Rome, British Museum Publications, London 1982 discusses them in the context of ancient Greek heterosexual pornography. Generally, searching indices for 'olisbos' should help. Unfortunately, none have been found that i know of, spo the assumption that they are made of leather is based largely on the fact that Southern European penitentials in the 9th and 10th century mention leather as a material. Polished wood is equally possible, though some depictions show what looks like seams along the lower edge. Obviously, I can't speak for the relative merits of either material. Quote:Quote:(these would be hell to reconstruct - I've been working on a hardening technique that stands up to warmth and moisture) Actually, the hardening technique in question is for a pencase and lamellar armour for a frtied. Though if I manage an olisbos I think I'll enter it into an SCA competition, just for giggles. My latest attempt (before real life intervened) was drying out the leather in a gentle oven, then hardening it by soaking in hide glue treated with 10% of dry weight alum for moiture resistance. Hide glue stands up to heat well above the boiling point, but is very water-sensitive. Alum reduces that. The technique works, but I haven't had the opportunity to destruct-test pieces yet. Re: Provincial campfollower (prostitute) kit - hoplite14gr - 11-26-2005 Consernig the "leather phalluses for use as dildos" it is mentioned in Aristophanes "Lysistrati" and in a fragment of a court speech, I think Lyssias, in descriptionof an "immoral act". Kind regards Stefanos Re: Provincial campfollower (prostitute) kit - Arthes - 11-26-2005 Quote:Hi Arthes and Comerus,No unfortunately, the young lady in the blue dress is who resembles my daughter......the previous avatar was not unlike me in my late teens - rather obsessed with Ancient Greece in those days :lol: I discovered those split side dresses are actually what the Spartan ladies wore..... :wink: regards Arthes Re: Provincial campfollower (prostitute) kit - tlclark - 11-26-2005 Thanks all for the information regarding leather molded phalluses or olisboi. If my wife asks what I was doing, tell her I was asking about molded leather armor. (of course that doesn't explain what I was doing in this forum to begin with!!) hock: Thanks again, travis Re: Provincial campfollower (prostitute) kit - Arthes - 12-10-2005 Greetings, I don't know about leather, but I came across this today.... http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/ ... allus.html - funny what you find when looking through Archaeological things.... regards Arthes Re: Provincial campfollower (prostitute) kit - Carlton Bach - 12-11-2005 Quote:Greetings, Ah, that one. We had interesting discussions about it. Some archeologists claimed it was actually for - use - but I don't think the evidence bears this out. More likely a carefully crafted flint knapper whose owner was proud of his endowments, or would have liked to be. It is very pretty, thats for sure. |