Да, конструкция слишком сложная для меня, я человек простой. Вот, порылся в интернете и нашел впечатления другого человека, тоже пораженного этим артефактом. Там есть гипотезы, что для чего.
WHAT, you may ask, is this? It looks like a Swiss Army knife. In fact it is more a Roman Army knife, for it was made in the third century AD. Amazing.
It caught my eye in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, which acquired it in 1991. It is about six inches long and made of silver and iron (the knife blade has rusted in the past 1,700 years or so). The hinge and rivets are what you would expect from a well crafted artefact today.
There is a handy spoon with a fork (rare in Roman times) at the other end, a curly thing, a spatula possibly for getting the wax out of your ears (an occupation much pursued in ancient times) and a spike for winkling out snails or taking the stones out of horses' hooves.
If you want a moral, it is merely that ancient culture was not crude. But just to go and see it is a pleasure.
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Вот, порылся в интернете и нашел впечатления другого человека, тоже пораженного этим артефактом. Там есть гипотезы, что для чего.
WHAT, you may ask, is this? It looks like a Swiss Army knife. In fact it is more a Roman Army knife, for it was made in the third century AD. Amazing.
It caught my eye in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, which acquired it in 1991. It is about six inches long and made of silver and iron (the knife blade has rusted in the past 1,700 years or so). The hinge and rivets are what you would expect from a well crafted artefact today.
There is a handy spoon with a fork (rare in Roman times) at the other end, a curly thing, a spatula possibly for getting the wax out of your ears (an occupation much pursued in ancient times) and a spike for winkling out snails or taking the stones out of horses' hooves.
If you want a moral, it is merely that ancient culture was not crude. But just to go and see it is a pleasure.