03-11-2016, 04:08 PM
Koen, Sam et.al.
Just a thought - perhaps the beige thing is meant for a calabash or some similar container. Handy to rinse your hair or have an instant shower along with the bath.
This picture shows the ordinary sort of jug-like calabash (centre, back row), and also the double gourd that is pictured onYou are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. I'm sure about the double-gourd's being intended on f.4v, but not so sure that the beige thing under the nymph's arm was intended to be seen as the jug-like type. The double, still on its vine, is pictured in the Tacuinum Sanitatis though whether they were easily grown in Europe, I don't know. Today, various types of gourd/calabash are still used - from Africa, and southern Arabia, to as far as southern China.
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Just a thought - perhaps the beige thing is meant for a calabash or some similar container. Handy to rinse your hair or have an instant shower along with the bath.
This picture shows the ordinary sort of jug-like calabash (centre, back row), and also the double gourd that is pictured onYou are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. I'm sure about the double-gourd's being intended on f.4v, but not so sure that the beige thing under the nymph's arm was intended to be seen as the jug-like type. The double, still on its vine, is pictured in the Tacuinum Sanitatis though whether they were easily grown in Europe, I don't know. Today, various types of gourd/calabash are still used - from Africa, and southern Arabia, to as far as southern China.