09-11-2015, 11:08 AM
Quote:Arno Luyendijk post=369983 Wrote:I'm using the Commachio bag for this as well, it being the only preserved bag of an appropriate size, as far as I am aware. The tools were up on his shoulder, which might suggest something like a duffle slung over his shoulder, but the 500 degree blast would probably have moved stuff around a bit while it was incinerating anything easily burnable, so it is possible a bag like the Commachio example might have ended up where the tools were found. For museum engagement purposes, a shoulder bag is better as it leaves your hands free!.
For these same practical reasons, Robert, I also tend to give the Comacchio bag priority above the loculus (which I doubt, considering its envelope shape was ever useful - if it even ever existed). But it would of course be worth while to know if there are other kinds of proof to argue for the Comacchio's military use.
