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The article currently confuses two dolls. The top image matches its caption link[1], but not its caption text. The pictured "Grottarossa" doll, was buried by
by mncharity 6y ago
The article currently confuses two dolls. The top image matches its caption link[1], but not its caption text. The pictured "Grottarossa" doll, was buried by the via Appia near Rome, with a mummified 2nd-century ~12-year old girl. The caption text's "Illustration of the Ancient Roman doll of Crepereia Tryphaena" refers to a similar doll[2] from another 2nd C. sarcophagus in Rome.
I used the former in a video fragment on remembering scale - like Powers-of-Ten, but with 1000x chunks. "How do we play with things that are too big to play with? Like cars, and people, and trains? We use scale models. Like dolls, and toy ..., but with more zoom." Buildings view (1 mm:m); real world; micro view (1 mm:um - red blood cells are M&Ms); nano view (1 mm:nm - atoms are sand). I should get back to that someday.
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roman_ivory_doll_from_the_mid-2nd_century_AD,_from_the_%27Grottarossa_Mummy%27_sarcophagus,_Palazzo_Massimo_alle_Terme,_Rome_(15725663442).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roman_ivory_doll_fro...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Crepereia_Tryphaena-2.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Crepereia_Tryphaena-2.png