Evidently it really was probably a cucumber? http://artisticlicenseorwhyitrustnoone.blogspot.com/2022/11/bullshit-memes-8-ancient-egyptian.html?m=1
tl;dr - was found with other model food, probably meant to sustain someone in the afterlife
Let me guess. A model carrot, squash was there also. And a drawing of a farmer with his shirt off.
Butt plugs and corn ribbed for her pleasure
Yeah picture didnt help their cause, thats a whole bunch of ancient sex toys.
How thoughtful of them to ensure that the deceased would have something to put up their butt in the underworld.
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Sustain someone with the ability to have a little sexy time in the afterlife? I like this.
People just love to assume that archeologists have no idea what sex or gay people are. Not saying there isn't a problem with that, but the memes are overblown.
I remember seeing a ton of "archeologists: tHeY'rE jUsT fRiEnDs" comments on an ancient illustration of two Egyptian men, when every single source I could find explained why they seem to have been a gay couple.
Seems like a case where a particular claim of a select group was generalised over a supergroup by way of being the subject of memes that ran away with the stereotype.
It's like that one fraud falsifying studies about a specific type of vaccines in an attempt to sell his own, only for people to latch on to the "vaccine bad" part of the story without limit, nuance or critical examination.
Does anyone still know where the original "just friends" claim stems from, in which context, supported by which arguments, what refutations have been offered since and just how widespread among archaeologists it is today?
IM sure that’s what they wrote down and I’m sure that’s what the person who had it commissioned said it was but the one thing I am more sure of is that this is not a cucumber and nobody who ever saw it has ever thought it is a cucumber.
From the article I linked with the item in the context of other finds at the same site…
they chose to hide it in plain sight
Why does that sound like the voice of experience?
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kinky
Theoretically even a buttplug could be assembled using 2 of the veggies
"sustain"
It was probably used for religious purposes of some sort
indeed. coming closer to believed gods is important to some in any society. its just a clear in and out conclusion.
Usage was frequently accompanied by callings to a deity from a trance like state.
A very popular ritual that has survived for millennia
No you see they know it's a cucumber because ancient Egyptian dildos had a compartment for bees so that users could experience a vibration effect.
This is the economy model. Made for the common folk, not Cleopatra. (That is just an urban legend btw.)
I was not aware of this urban legend, but I will repeat it anyways because it's funny.
Likely used for ceremonial purposes.
Where are the ‘?’ marks. Is this how people write now.
Imagine yourself being confused and baffled by something, and asking "Really?". The intonation is rising, as is usual in questions. Imagine yourself hearing someone say something you are completely confident is absurdly false or a lie, and you want to suggest to the person that they're wrong and you know the truth, by sarcastically asking "Really?". The intonation is falling, closer to ordinary statements of fact.
OOP is using the full stop at the end of his "questons" to suggest the second, sarcastic intonation.
It's how people spoke in May of 2021. It was a different time.
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Oh that's cool, let me try.
Hunter2
All I can see is Hunter2 so you're probably fine
It works!
Ah, a classic. Good vintage on this one.
It's a unicode emoji of a cucumber that your device apparently doesn't support
Grammar is made up
is there a problem か
Same energy as "Sappho and her friend"
Do a scientific test were you put it in front of a cat and see what happens
"Model cucumber? Hell, nah, son. That there's a petrified hunk 'a' dooky."
"Ah man, I ate off that thing!"
As we well know all women and men in history that lived together with someone of the same gender were just friends. There are many historical records in which esteemed historians depicted the factual truth of deep friendships. Luckily for the rest of us, those noble seers always knew all context required and bore no prejudices towards anything whatsoever. That is a model cucumber. It even tastes like one.
I'm the model of a cucumber Egyptian
There are some people in here who are weirdly obsessed with risking a yeast infection.
But bro
You could get yourself a yeast infection with 3000 year old yeast
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