Ancient butcher's knife

ariel · 18th October 2005, 12:12 AM

This comes from my recent trip to Turkey.We went to the ruins of the ancient city of Perge (close to Antalya) and there was this "street sign": an advertisement for a butcher's shop, with depictions of a knife and a meat hook. This is about 2-3 century BCE.

Battara · 18th October 2005, 09:14 PM

Wow, nice picture. I have heard of folks using such pictures back then in all areas of the Mediterranean (and elsewhere) as shop signs.

(This includes sticking your buns out the window of the ancient bakeries

).

Rivkin · 19th October 2005, 08:25 PM

I thought about saying something like "well, this is typical IV-25 according to Gorelik", but after actually looking through Gorelik I realized that 60% of his daggers are something like this guy. Guess, there is not a lot of diversity among the ways you can stab/cut something or someone.

18th October 2005, 12:12 AM	#1
ariel Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Posts: 5,503	Ancient butcher's knife This comes from my recent trip to Turkey.We went to the ruins of the ancient city of Perge (close to Antalya) and there was this "street sign": an advertisement for a butcher's shop, with depictions of a knife and a meat hook. This is about 2-3 century BCE. Attached Images

18th October 2005, 09:14 PM	#2
Battara EAAF Staff Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Louisville, KY Posts: 7,225	Wow, nice picture. I have heard of folks using such pictures back then in all areas of the Mediterranean (and elsewhere) as shop signs. (This includes sticking your buns out the window of the ancient bakeries ).

19th October 2005, 08:25 PM	#3
Rivkin Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 655	I thought about saying something like "well, this is typical IV-25 according to Gorelik", but after actually looking through Gorelik I realized that 60% of his daggers are something like this guy. Guess, there is not a lot of diversity among the ways you can stab/cut something or someone.