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L’excellent blog “Savoirs d’Histoire” nous propose un article consacré à la pratique antique des représentation phalliques utilisées comme décoration. Dans l’Antiquité l’organe viril masculin, emblème de fertilité méritant d’être célébré, était l’objet d’un culte et recevait des honneurs divins. Cela s’explique notamment par le fait que la représentation phallique à but cultuel était détachée de toute connotation érotique et dissociée …

Moins connu que wikipedia, wikihow, comme son nom l’indique, regroupe des tutoriels sur de nombreux sujets, parfois étonnants, comme les Saturnales : Saturnalia is the Roman festival honoring Saturnus, who introduced agriculture and the arts of civilized life. It was the season when agricultural work was completed; a sort of joyous Thanksgiving-type holiday of relaxation and merriment. During Saturnalia, businesses, …

Sur Youtube, Janet Stephens s’amuse à expliquer comment “reproduire” des coiffures antiques. You can tell that hairdresser/archaeologist/YouTube personality Janet Stephens is an unusual woman by her choice of reading material: “I read Vogue and Bazaar for work, and I read scholarly work for entertainment,” she says. Stephens styles hair at Baltimore’s Studio 921, but she’s better known outside of her …

Merci à  Roma Aeterna (Archéologie et Histoire) pour ce sympathique tutoriel : (crédit inconnu)

Les outils de fabrication du sceau-cylindre Un sceau-cylindre mesure environ de 3 centimètres de haut sur 1,5 centimètre de large. Si l’on ajoute à cela qu’il est en pierre et qu’à son apparition il n’y a pas d’outils en métal, on comprend mieux la performance technique et artistique du graveur de sceau, graveur que l’on appelle le “purkullu” . Pour …

Hoplologia started studying the construction of the aspis in July 2008. As soon as research was started it became obvious that neither the academic world nor the reenactment world actually knew, for certain, how to construct an aspis, although many secondary sources exist with pictures that infer or suggest how an aspis might be built. It is worth noting at …

le site timetravellerkids.co.uk nous indique un tutoriel tout simple pour fabriquer une tablette de cire comme les Romains. Writing tablets have been used for thousands of years, long before paper was readily available. In ancient Greece and Rome, wax tablets were very popular. These were small, book sized wooden tablets that were hollowed out on one side and covered with …

Oil lamps have been found in many Ancient civilizations and there are many examples of Roman oil lamps. Many of these were made from clay which was set in moulds and then fired. The lamps were often decorated with patterns or pictures like this one in the British Museum, which has a picture of gladiators fighting on it! We thought it would …