Provincial campfollower (prostitute) kit

[Carlton Bach]

Whoa... McBride and Newark did a whole line of books together, didn't they? Looks like something right out if a comic book, those mighty-thewed warrior gods.

I'll se if i can get it, just for larks

Thanks

[Arthes]

Here's a page on a modern woman being made up into a Roman woman. May be of some use for makeup, etc?
[url:j6dawm27]http://www.geocities.com/sallypointer/makeover/[/url]

Something I am thinking on doing for female LH 'demonstrations' during next season - although in Roman military displays, can't be a female even with Sarmatian ancestry...:evil:
Roman soldiers with make up and unshorn hair .....hehe
regards
Arthes

[Arthes]

I dont have the Book, but this for sure are Prostitutes dressed in yellow & blue; plate by McBride
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/C ... s290ub.jpg

Judging by the tunics and armour this is supposed to be somewhere in the fourth or early fifth century. Do you have any further data? And where does he get the female clothes? I know slit-side skirts and separate short tunics from reconstructions of Migration-era Germanic clothes, but Roman?

What book is this from. Might be worth getting for 'recruitment' puposes.

If I'm not mistaking it comefrom Ancient Celts Concord: http://img331.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... s012ry.jpg

Hope you find it....... Comerus!

It's my daughter and a couple of her friends after a night out a few years back.......I was the one looking out of the door......lol
(the two girls actually resemble them in looks - not in anything else..... :lol: ) The guy in blue is a musician......and I don't know where Sean Connery came from... :lol: hehe

[hoplite14gr]

I got the book nice image. Shows that nothing changes.
The authorities always spoil peoples patries! :lol:
Kind regards
Stefanos

[Arthes]

Greetings,

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/C ... s290ub.jpg

It's my daughter and a couple of her friends after a night out a few years back.......I was the one looking out of the door......lol
(the two girls actually resemble them in looks - not in anything else..... :lol: ) The guy in blue is a musician......and I don't know where Sean Connery came from... :lol: hehe

:lol: :lol: :lol: Yes he does damn look like Sean Conery

Oh Jesus Cristy, what is going to happend when my daughter grow up!? :evil: why a girl?

I shall have my gladius sharp & ready for that day :twisted:

someone has to have the girls........
Would you like to meet my Papa, he is called Philip II.....er Gioi..... :lol:

[Uwe Bahr]

Hi Arthes, Comerus,

it might be of interest for You that one guy from Berlin ( http://www.zinnfiguren-stefan-loewe.de ) has transformed the nice little scene into a flat diorama, dating the time corridor back to the first century CE, and even Sean Connery looks a bit younger ... :wink:

[url:1j6z58sp]http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/Comerus/ancientcelts290ub.jpg[/url]

[url:1j6z58sp]http://www.zinnfiguren-stefan-loewe.de/images/dior/Beneficiar.jpg[/url]

Greets - Uwe

[Arthes]

Hi Arthes, Comerus,

it might be of interest for You that one guy from Berlin ( http://www.zinnfiguren-stefan-loewe.de ) has transformed the nice little scene into a flat diorama, dating the time corridor back to the first century CE, and even Sean Connery looks a bit younger ... :wink:

[url:mt01lzag]http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/Comerus/ancientcelts290ub.jpg[/url]

[url:mt01lzag]http://www.zinnfiguren-stefan-loewe.de/images/dior/Beneficiar.jpg[/url]

Greets - Uwe

Oh, yes......but where have I gone.......... lol:

[Uwe Bahr]

Hi Arthes and Comerus,

Arthes, referring to Your former avatar (I mean that with the beautiful lady not the warrior with the late Roman helmet) I thought You were the one with the blue dress and white scarf on the left ...

Comerus, good interpretation!

Greets - Uwe

[tlclark]

Carlton Bach,

I can't believe I am asking this...but... :oops: I just need to know.

leather phalluses for use as dildos

Where on earth did you get this reference?

It might be relevant for my studies on the lorica musculata, and YES I'm serious. If they can make molded leather phalluses, they can certainly make molded leather armor.

(these would be hell to reconstruct - I've been working on a hardening technique that stands up to warmth and moisture)

I don't want to know how you "field" test your "reconstruction", hock: but please Let me know what you've found out.

I am going to attempt to make molded leather tongue pteruges this January and I will happily share any thing I learn for your...ahem...little project. hock:

[Carlton Bach]

Carlton Bach,

I can't believe I am asking this...but... :oops: I just need to know.

leather phalluses for use as dildos

Where on earth did you get this reference?

It might be relevant for my studies on the lorica musculata, and YES I'm serious. If they can make molded leather phalluses, they can certainly make molded leather armor.

Johns, Catherine: Sex or Symbol. Erotic Images of Greece and Rome, British Museum Publications, London 1982 discusses them in the context of ancient Greek heterosexual pornography. Generally, searching indices for 'olisbos' should help. Unfortunately, none have been found that i know of, spo the assumption that they are made of leather is based largely on the fact that Southern European penitentials in the 9th and 10th century mention leather as a material. Polished wood is equally possible, though some depictions show what looks like seams along the lower edge. Obviously, I can't speak for the relative merits of either material.

(these would be hell to reconstruct - I've been working on a hardening technique that stands up to warmth and moisture)

I don't want to know how you "field" test your "reconstruction", hock: but please Let me know what you've found out.

I am going to attempt to make molded leather tongue pteruges this January and I will happily share any thing I learn for your...ahem...little project. hock:

Actually, the hardening technique in question is for a pencase and lamellar armour for a frtied. Though if I manage an olisbos I think I'll enter it into an SCA competition, just for giggles.

My latest attempt (before real life intervened) was drying out the leather in a gentle oven, then hardening it by soaking in hide glue treated with 10% of dry weight alum for moiture resistance. Hide glue stands up to heat well above the boiling point, but is very water-sensitive. Alum reduces that. The technique works, but I haven't had the opportunity to destruct-test pieces yet.

[hoplite14gr]

Consernig the "leather phalluses for use as dildos" it is mentioned in Aristophanes "Lysistrati" and in a fragment of a court speech, I think Lyssias,
in descriptionof an "immoral act". Kind regards
Stefanos

[Arthes]

Hi Arthes and Comerus,
Arthes, referring to Your former avatar (I mean that with the beautiful lady not the warrior with the late Roman helmet) I thought You were the one with the blue dress and white scarf on the left ...
Greets - Uwe

No unfortunately, the young lady in the blue dress is who resembles my daughter......the previous avatar was not unlike me in my late teens - rather obsessed with Ancient Greece in those days :lol:
I discovered those split side dresses are actually what the Spartan ladies wore..... :wink:
regards
Arthes

[tlclark]

Thanks all for the information regarding leather molded phalluses or olisboi.

If my wife asks what I was doing, tell her I was asking about molded leather armor.

(of course that doesn't explain what I was doing in this forum to begin with!!) hock:

Thanks again,

travis

[Arthes]

Greetings,
I don't know about leather, but I came across this today....
http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/ ... allus.html - funny what you find when looking through Archaeological things....
regards
Arthes

[Carlton Bach]

Greetings,
I don't know about leather, but I came across this today....
http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/ ... allus.html - funny what you find when looking through Archaeological things....
regards
Arthes

Ah, that one. We had interesting discussions about it. Some archeologists claimed it was actually for - use - but I don't think the evidence bears this out. More likely a carefully crafted flint knapper whose owner was proud of his endowments, or would have liked to be.

It is very pretty, thats for sure.