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Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
Both posts are valid. One thing we have certainly learned in the last 100 years is that the Greco-Roman world wasn't all white marble. They painted almost everything.
Like the paint company with the motto: Cover the Earth?
Naraku
Draconarius
The ancients only had a limit number of colors available using ground minerals and plants.
Also, many of these were meant to be seen from a distance. The friezes along the top of the Parthenon - most of which are now in the British Museum) would haven been 45 feet (13.72m) above the observers, so subtle coloring wouldn't have been visible.
(The second image is by Lawrence Alma Tadema, who knew in 1868 that the frieze was painted.)
Anyway, I think some of them look pretty good.
Marcius
Tribune
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Uneasy lay the heads.
Uneasy lay the heads.
Frank Petrexa
Tribune
It's problematic to buy land in Italia. Dig a little, and they might find things that put your plans on indefinite hold.
From the New York Times:
From the New York Times:
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
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malins
Stumbling Seeker
Not Roman, but just using this as "historical resources" ...
Egyptian beadnet dresses, ca 2500 BC
How were they worn ... it's assumed that often they were worn over fabric, making it conform more closely to the body.
However there is also this:
So was that just plain nets or his kind of dress? (one would have to be an egyptologist)
For the last one:
On reconstruction,
Depictions of women in Egyptian art occasionally feature garments decorated with an overall lozenge pattern. This design is believed to represent beadwork, which was either sewn onto a linen dress or worked into a separate net worn over the linen. This beadnet dress is the earliest surviving example of such a garment. It has been painstakingly reassembled from approximately seven thousand beads found in an undisturbed burial of a female contemporary of King Khufu. Although their string had disintegrated, a few beads still lay in their original pattern on and around the mummy, permitting an accurate reconstruction. The color of the beads has faded, but the beadnet was originally blue and blue green in imitation of lapis lazuli and turquoise.
A possible depiction
Egyptian beadnet dresses, ca 2500 BC
How were they worn ... it's assumed that often they were worn over fabric, making it conform more closely to the body.
However there is also this:
King Sneferu ... on a sailing trip on the palace lake, recorded on a papyrus dating from around 1800 BC.:
The King gets twenty young women to row a boat and, to relieve his boredom, orders:
‘Let there be brought to me twenty women with the shapeliest bodies, breasts and braids, who have not yet given birth.
And let there be brought to me 20 nets. Give those nets to these women in place of their clothes!'”
The King gets twenty young women to row a boat and, to relieve his boredom, orders:
‘Let there be brought to me twenty women with the shapeliest bodies, breasts and braids, who have not yet given birth.
And let there be brought to me 20 nets. Give those nets to these women in place of their clothes!'”
So was that just plain nets or his kind of dress? (one would have to be an egyptologist)
For the last one:
“Each of the 127 shells around the fringe are plugged with a small stone so that it would have emitted a rattling sound when the wearer moved.”
On reconstruction,
Depictions of women in Egyptian art occasionally feature garments decorated with an overall lozenge pattern. This design is believed to represent beadwork, which was either sewn onto a linen dress or worked into a separate net worn over the linen. This beadnet dress is the earliest surviving example of such a garment. It has been painstakingly reassembled from approximately seven thousand beads found in an undisturbed burial of a female contemporary of King Khufu. Although their string had disintegrated, a few beads still lay in their original pattern on and around the mummy, permitting an accurate reconstruction. The color of the beads has faded, but the beadnet was originally blue and blue green in imitation of lapis lazuli and turquoise.
A possible depiction
Rias
Neko Girl
oho its squirrel favourite food crunchy outside yummy gummy inside what else expresso also w8 must bring some slugs for squirrel from garden meow
Naraku
Draconarius
The Ancient Egyptians certainly weren't shy.
Servants and performers were often nude or semi-nude.
But, all women seem to have gone topless or in almost see-through dresses.
Even nobles.
old slave
FELIS RESPICIENS
I remember a BBC TV historical costume drama about ancient Egypt about 30 years ago, and the servant class girls were all topless. It was very daring for the time.
Migoz2
Senator
Damn! I would have liked to have seen that. Eroticism and opera go well together in my book!Some years back, I posted a YouTube link of a performance of the priestesses' dance in Verdi's Aida with some of the performers tastefully topless, but sadly YouTube's censored it. Boob-tubes are compulsory on YouTube
Frank Petrexa
Tribune
Give them a break. It's hot down there. Maybe it wasn't all libertine lust. People had to work. (In the last chapter of John, after the Resurrection, "the Lord" appears on the shore and tells the apostles where to cast the net after they had worked all night and caught nothing. When the "beloved disciple" says, "it is the Lord", Peter puts on his robe (incongruously) and dives in to swim ashore, leaving the others to haul in the fish, since he was "stripped for work". So, apparently context matters.) I don't imagine a lot of ancient Egyptians got to bathe all that much, since the Nile was it as far as water is concerned.
Frank Petrexa
Tribune
Yes, perfumes are definitely preferable to taking your chances with crocodiles. There were lots of those.
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
Channeling your ancestors, girl? Longing for the "flesh-pots" of Egypt? (Of course, flesh-pots meant stewing meat, not carnal indulgence.)
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
If you were my slave in ancient Egypt. You would be lucky and you would get more than leftovers from me (and not just food!)