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I received my stipend of 50 denarii, out of which I have paid barley money 16 denarii; …food expenses 20 denarii; boots 5 denarii; leather strappings 2 denarii; linen tunic 7 denarii.
Poor sod lost all his money on mandatory expenses. Let's hope he had more luck his next pay period!
I’m from a 2000+ years old city that has a shit ton of Roman ruins buried in the ground to the point that every new development is super anxious about finding any and getting delayed by archeologists. What gets me is that it feels like 2k years isn’t that long ago in the grand scheme of things but clearly it’s more than long enough to trap shit under meters of soil.
We don’t get enough of this type of art, I’ve tried carving relief designs in clay and in slate and it’s freakin difficult. How did people train their eyes for 4-D,to be able to create a scene like that? My depth perception is not accurate enough, everything I carved looked like lumpy jellyfish
It really puts into perspective (ha) just how much work goes into art, especially pre-modern art. There's such a limited margin for error, and still they made such beautiful works, often with inferior tools.
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