01-10-2009, 08:23 PM
Which doesnt´ answer Crispus´question... 
1. I can´t define the width of the straps in the Miks drawing, but I am sure the strips could be narrower. That doesn´t really play a role for the idea as such. The straps could be narrower at the point where they pass through the loops, could be narrower at all, or could be pulled through the hole and be bendt at that point, which would easily work. But, it doesn´t really play a role.
2. They are called button-loop fasteners because someone thought that´s a good name for the object. It doesn´t really tell us sthg. about the actual function of the object, though.... If we´d find a strigils without knowing what it is / was and we would call it "belt hook", it still would be a strigilis and not a belt hook. In German the button-loop fasteners are called "Zierscheibe mit Doppelöse" which translates as "decorative disc with double bail".
1. I can´t define the width of the straps in the Miks drawing, but I am sure the strips could be narrower. That doesn´t really play a role for the idea as such. The straps could be narrower at the point where they pass through the loops, could be narrower at all, or could be pulled through the hole and be bendt at that point, which would easily work. But, it doesn´t really play a role.
2. They are called button-loop fasteners because someone thought that´s a good name for the object. It doesn´t really tell us sthg. about the actual function of the object, though....
If we´d find a strigils without knowing what it is / was and we would call it "belt hook", it still would be a strigilis and not a belt hook. In German the button-loop fasteners are called "Zierscheibe mit Doppelöse" which translates as "decorative disc with double bail".
Christian K.
No reconstruendum => No reconstruction.
Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.
No reconstruendum => No reconstruction.
Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.
