476mon3neme in archaeologyRare 1,800-year-old Roman soldier’s wrist purse unearthed in Czech Republic reveals life on the empire’s frontierhttps://archaeologymag.com/2025/06/roman-wrist-purse-unearthed-in-czech-republic/
BevelGear @beehaw.org - 6monThe image of the purse in the thumbnail/article is from 50–250 CE, found in Mook, Limburg, the Netherlands. Here's the one the article is about https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/fragment-of-a-roman-wrist-purse.jpg Václav Šálek, ČTK Source 13
Ricky Rigatoni - 6mon This suggests that the owner was a junior officer or someone responsible for the operating funds of the unit And he fucking dropped it and lost it for millenia. Dork. 6
xylogx @lemmy.world - 6monSuper-interesting, that must be where they kept their iPhone during battle! I wonder if they get steps for swinging their gladius? 1
neme in archaeology
Rare 1,800-year-old Roman soldier’s wrist purse unearthed in Czech Republic reveals life on the empire’s frontier
https://archaeologymag.com/2025/06/roman-wrist-purse-unearthed-in-czech-republic/The image of the purse in the thumbnail/article is from 50–250 CE, found in Mook, Limburg, the Netherlands.
Here's the one the article is about
https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/fragment-of-a-roman-wrist-purse.jpg
Václav Šálek, ČTK
Source
And he fucking dropped it and lost it for millenia. Dork.
Super-interesting, that must be where they kept their iPhone during battle! I wonder if they get steps for swinging their gladius?