10-12-2006, 08:34 AM
Quote:So, having mice (as harbingers of imminent death) on a Soldier's helmet is certainly fitting.
Can't comment on the bread, though.
IMMINENT DEATH TO THE BAKERS!! :twisted:
Roman helmet with the mice on it
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10-12-2006, 08:34 AM
Quote:So, having mice (as harbingers of imminent death) on a Soldier's helmet is certainly fitting. IMMINENT DEATH TO THE BAKERS!! :twisted:
10-12-2006, 09:01 AM
Does there have to be a deeply significant answer? Might it not be that the guy who commissioned the helmet (I assume it wasn't standard issue) had a sense of humour? He'd need one with a peak like that anyway!
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10-12-2006, 09:26 AM
The helmet is in the Bonner Landesmuseum, where I work now and then.
There is a sign with explanations...next time I am there, I try remember to take a pic. :wink:
Susanna
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10-12-2006, 09:37 AM
Ave omnes,
just take a closer look at the bread – it’s a ChiRho. http://www.onlinepictures.de/2/?img=Chr ... bd3jpg.jpg Perhaps in contrary to the rich ornamented helmet, the owner was as poor as a church mouse? :lol: Seriously, there are some more mice on Roman artefacts: http://www.onlinepictures.de/2/?img=Mau ... 208jpg.jpg http://www.onlinepictures.de/2/?img=Mau ... e78jpg.jpg
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Heiko (Cornelius Quintus) Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
10-26-2006, 10:23 PM
Gaius_Calvus Wrote -
Posted: Wed 11 Oct 2006, 11:52 Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Mice were chthonic, and were considered harbingers of imminent death in the Roman world. So, having mice (as harbingers of imminent death) on a Soldier's helmet is certainly fitting " So perhaps if mice were harbingers of imminent death, the bread would be a symbol of life? B. Angel
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10-27-2006, 08:20 AM
Quote:So perhaps if mice were harbingers of imminent death, the bread would be a symbol of life? Life and death depicted in symbols? I quite like that! A bit like having 'love' 'hate' tattoos on the knuckles! The mouse and loaf motif appear on many gravestones of Praetorian guardsmen in Rome too. The mouse was also a symbol of afterlife and rebirth. |
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