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BBC : Roman era \'throne\' recovered from Herculaneum (Pics)
#1
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
Jaime
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#2
Wonderful find, and an example of amazing items still in there. But why call it a throne?
Richard Campbell
Legio XX - Alexandria, Virginia
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#3
Because it only becomes a chair if there are cooler things found to talk about. Don't you love archaeological marketing? Confusedhock: Confusedhock: :roll: :roll:
Derek D. Estabrook
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#4
LOL...no kidding. Looks like chair to me.
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#5
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.
Martin

Fac me cocleario vomere!
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#6
Quote: but didn't carry the specific meaning of 'formal seat of a ruler' that it has now.
As well as.... http://www.tokyomango.com/tokyo_mango/2 ... eated.html
TARBICvS/Jim Bowers
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#7
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?
Martin

Fac me cocleario vomere!
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#8
Surely it must be a sacrificial chair ?
Conal Moran

Do or do not, there is no try!
Yoda
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#9
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:
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#10
I guess Elvis wasn't the only one that liked to crap in style.
Derek D. Estabrook
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#11
Hey, a marble throne.........brrrrrrrrrrrrr Confusedhock:
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
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Titus Flavius Germanus
Batavian Coh I
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