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I was going to agree with you, noting that it’s in a basket of fruit (with an offering of foods) but humans have used Pine nuts for food since prehistoric times

by nilram 5y ago

I was going to agree with you, noting that it’s in a basket of fruit (with an offering of foods) but humans have used Pine nuts for food since prehistoric times (per Wikipedia). It seems the simplest explanation–it’s not that Romans didn’t know how to draw pinecones, but that a particular Roman had a hard time representing a pinecone in a mosaic.

mcphage 5y ago
> that a particular Roman had a hard time representing a pinecone in a mosaic It's too bad nobody hired him to represent pineapples, though, because he would have done a great job.