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Did people not just buy things for decoration in the Roman empire? Seems like we try to attach deep meaning to everything discovered in older civilizations. When many could just have some mundane meaningless purpose like decoration.

Imagine the poor future people that seek to find meaning in the unearthed funko pops and gold spray painted pine cones of our time.

Reminds me of the guy that buried flaming hot cheetos in an elaborate coffin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6_C7z4XvOQ




Yeah, someone probably made it out of passion once, others liked it so much they offered him lot of money or fame, the art proliferated. Some artists created similar models, some modified on top of it.


Yes they made decorative objects, but those objects were written about and depicted in art. these aren't.


Respectfully, I find it hard to believe that every decorative object was in turn immortalized in art, that seems pretty recursive.


Not every object but every type of object. There have been hundreds of these things, and none of them have been depicted elsewhere, nor described in writing that has survived.




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