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Roman helmet with the mice on it
#31
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:
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#32
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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Alan Walker

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#33
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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#34
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?
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#35
Gaius_Calvus Wrote -
Posted: Wed 11 Oct 2006, 11:52 Post subject:

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"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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#36
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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