What is this 3D model?
Added 2023-11-09 20:03:17 +0000 UTCWe're busy putting the finishing touches on the next instalment of Time Team News, which includes some interesting reconstruction models. But what on earth is this strange contraption?
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A burrito rolling machine? John Gater's autocue? Let us know what you think in the comments section.
To find out the answer, you'll just have to wait until the episode. Full details to follow soon...
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Comments
Agreed: Looks like the early device used to try to unroll the carbonized Herculaneum scrolls.
Steven M. Frisby
2023-11-18 05:47:01 +0000 UTCA scytale encryption device used to make thin strips of messages that could be wrapped round a scroll disguising the real intent of battle planning.
Caroline W
2023-11-16 18:41:03 +0000 UTCI think it might be for unrolling and reading lead scrolls/curses
David
2023-11-15 04:20:24 +0000 UTCLove these models; keep 'em coming!
Robert Talamantez
2023-11-14 13:47:58 +0000 UTChello its the member with aspergers autism i been looking at it looks like a parchement reader or parchement dryer just an idea .8-)(-;>0.0<
Stefanie Messialle
2023-11-14 09:35:00 +0000 UTCI thought we were beyond unrolling scrolls from antiquity. The amazing success I’ve seen in “reading” the Herculaneum scrolls I hope stops people physically damaging these objects any more. If we can’t do it now, leave it for the next gen and better tech.
Graham Dombkins
2023-11-13 02:25:14 +0000 UTC🧐🤔❤️❤️❤️❤️
Cheryl Kurucz
2023-11-11 03:10:03 +0000 UTCI agree with everyone who thinks it's for unrolling the Herculaneum burned scrolls. It worked a little bit but mostly destroyed them instead. So thrilled to hear about the newly developed tech for non-invasively reading them at last!
Noblesse Oblige
2023-11-10 17:16:43 +0000 UTCDefinitely an antique japanese sushi roller. :)
Jakub Jůzl
2023-11-10 15:36:18 +0000 UTCI suggest it's either a lead scroll, or possibly velum, which is loaded into the suspension straps with the weight carried by the curved metal underneath. It would appear to be to unroll the scroll slowly so as to not damage it. Between lowering the curved metal support and tightening the screws at the top the scroll can be gently unrolled and read. I note that there are letters on the reverse where the letters on the front have disappeared. Unless it's a Phoenician menu that is rolled for breakfast, partly unrolled for lunch, and fully unrolled for dinner.
Russell Neilsen
2023-11-10 11:16:36 +0000 UTCEarly printing machine?
Susie Martin
2023-11-10 10:53:05 +0000 UTCLike Sandy, I thought of the efforts to preserve and unroll the scrolls from the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum.
Kerry Hennigan
2023-11-10 09:02:14 +0000 UTCMedieval Kindle
Hove Steve
2023-11-10 07:09:25 +0000 UTCPossibly a device designed to unroll Herculaneum scrolls or Dead Sea scrolls.
Sandy Seton-Browne
2023-11-10 02:59:40 +0000 UTCMy son and I vote for a lead scroll unroller, with a height controller to see as much of the scroll as you want at once. We can’t decide what the bowl and spoon are for though. Oil?
Flumbo
2023-11-10 01:35:43 +0000 UTCI am not sure but the writing looks like it might be Hebrew . I think it might be a stand for reading scripture.
Dave Couchman-Boor
2023-11-10 00:55:37 +0000 UTCPoor Stewart.
Kate
2023-11-09 23:41:05 +0000 UTCIt looks like something to do with rolling/unrolling of lead scrolls. The stand is adjustable for the size and weight of the scroll, both the holder and the table. Wouldn't you write on lead with a stylus? That writing looks more like brush and ink. Is the dish for liquid ink and the spoon for smashing the ink stick and stirring in the water? Is it Greek or some Middle Eastern script? Looks like Alpha, epsilon, lambda, sigma, chi and other characters I don't recognize.
Kate
2023-11-09 23:22:48 +0000 UTCInteresting. Is it for pressing the oils out of plants?
Kathleen Garza
2023-11-09 22:58:16 +0000 UTCrolling out lead? all their water pipes were made from lead , in this case flashing for roofs? just a punt
Mario Papworth
2023-11-09 22:31:34 +0000 UTCA trouser press for squirrels?
Loz
2023-11-09 22:08:32 +0000 UTCIt’s not Latin, that’s for sure.
James Leighninger
2023-11-09 21:07:20 +0000 UTCIs it a roman lead scroll unraveler
stuart sutcliffe
2023-11-09 21:00:08 +0000 UTCIs It a roman lead scroll unraveled?
stuart sutcliffe
2023-11-09 20:59:10 +0000 UTCI agree with Steve Egyptian papyrus scroll unroller 📜
barbara blue
2023-11-09 20:38:49 +0000 UTCIs it Stewart's bar tab after the Knights Hospitaller dig?
Time Team
2023-11-09 20:36:09 +0000 UTCIs the writing In Greek?
James Leighninger
2023-11-09 20:21:07 +0000 UTCthe device developed to unroll the Herculaneum scrolls. The idea was that the unrolled scroll would emerge from the slot at the top of the machine and then be supported onto a receiving piece of linen.
Clare Stapleton
2023-11-09 20:18:38 +0000 UTCI agree with Gordon, it's for unrolling Roman Curse tablets
Mike Darby
2023-11-09 20:18:24 +0000 UTCA papyrus scroll reader
Hove Steve
2023-11-09 20:15:34 +0000 UTCScroll unroller?
Penny Screech
2023-11-09 20:14:14 +0000 UTCSome kind of over-engineered Victorian unrolling device, so you don't have to touch it with your hands?
Jessicka Catherine
2023-11-09 20:11:31 +0000 UTCScroll roller/unroller. Looks like lead sheet with writing.
Gordon Elliott
2023-11-09 20:09:54 +0000 UTCIs some sort of printing device?
Ross Gibson
2023-11-09 20:07:58 +0000 UTC
