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Imperial Roman barracks diagram (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by PugJesus to c/historyillustrations

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

This is enlightening, but I can’t help but look at the boy with the knife. “If I cut it off, will I still have to go? Will they make me? No chance this is worth the denari, the goths will leave me gasping and crawling like Antonius Montana. Gods, I can’t do it, I can’t fucking do it.”

[–] SirSamuel 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I was wondering about that dude a well.

Maybe he's practicing that finger stabby game Bishop does with Hudson in Aliens

[–] PugJesus 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Detailing woodwork, maybe, or carving a message into a whitewashed board? Roman legionaries doubled as specialists who would do many of the 'normal' work around camp/the fort, including specialist carpenters.

(they volunteered for that kind of position because it got them out of guard duty and standard labor details digging ditches)

[–] SirSamuel 4 points 2 weeks ago

I've got it! He's cutting the foam lining for a helmet :-D