A rather less convincing Roman crocodile---or is it a hedgehog?! From nr Brough, East Yorks https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/734320 …pic.twitter.com/NvX6EpdBn5
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A rather less convincing Roman crocodile---or is it a hedgehog?! From nr Brough, East Yorks https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/734320 …pic.twitter.com/NvX6EpdBn5
Then again, compared to 11thC Anglo-Saxon drawing of an elephant, it's not bad really.... ;) http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/04/how-the-camel-got-the-hump.html …pic.twitter.com/xEYlqX8pH6
@caitlinrgreen Something Wm.Blakeish abt it.
Crocodile later became Nimes emblematic figure maybe your crocodile is from same legionnaries pastpic.twitter.com/JZBpRLYpt6
It's an interesting idea! Plus def have at least one person brought up in Nile Valley buried in Roman York, based on isotopes...!
belonged to a real Egyptian but the people who owned it last were born in Britain as 2nd-3rd generation
Definitely one possibility! :)
Gotta love when Sobek said, "I am lord of semen" in the Pyramid Texts. http://abt.cm/1KovOCd pic.twitter.com/KivK3ir25m
After Egypt conquest Augustus soldiers retired for some in Gaul in an area later known as Nimespic.twitter.com/9bp62e6fmq
@caitlinrgreen possible present day relatives?pic.twitter.com/cKU8mF1lm6
@caitlinrgreen @VOakden_FLO oh just seen who signed this off - I know nothing - ignore me
@caitlinrgreen Symbol for Nimes is a crocodile. Allegedly because Romans retired there after serving in Egypt.pic.twitter.com/eSAyibJbPh
@caitlinrgreen @VOakden_FLO are we sure it isn't a Victorian toy?
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