I wonder if you could bring some leaves off a tree from outside, or use a papyrus flyer you grabbed off the city wall. Whatever the options, I’ll bet that place reeked to high heaven.
I wonder if you could bring some leaves off a tree from outside, or use a papyrus flyer you grabbed off the city wall.
Doubt anyone would object to you bringing something in, though tearing off the city greenery may not be kosher. As for papyrus, I don’t know how comfortable it is compared to the alternatives, but there was cheap ‘low-grade’ papyrus used for wrapping. If papyrus is the route, I feel like it’s gonna be the cheap stuff.
Whatever the options, I’ll bet that place reeked to high heaven.
There was a Roman writer who lived on the same street as a public latrine who we have records of bitching about the smell (understandably). I thought it was Cicero, but if it is him, I can’t find it at the moment.
We used to dig a variation of these in the field when I was in the army. We called them screen latrines, and they were awful. I’d much rather have just gone out in the forest, but you can’t do that with 40 people, or the place quickly becomes a disease center.
Choices: communal sponge, or private pottery shards.
… I might choose the sponge, even knowing about germ theory. At least after the first few dozen pottery shards.
I wonder if you could bring some leaves off a tree from outside, or use a papyrus flyer you grabbed off the city wall. Whatever the options, I’ll bet that place reeked to high heaven.
Doubt anyone would object to you bringing something in, though tearing off the city greenery may not be kosher. As for papyrus, I don’t know how comfortable it is compared to the alternatives, but there was cheap ‘low-grade’ papyrus used for wrapping. If papyrus is the route, I feel like it’s gonna be the cheap stuff.
There was a Roman writer who lived on the same street as a public latrine who we have records of bitching about the smell (understandably). I thought it was Cicero, but if it is him, I can’t find it at the moment.
We used to dig a variation of these in the field when I was in the army. We called them screen latrines, and they were awful. I’d much rather have just gone out in the forest, but you can’t do that with 40 people, or the place quickly becomes a disease center.
“The more things change, the more they stay the same”
Someday, Space Marines will be digging shit ditches on Mars.