Thread: The Ultimate Restoration Project

Yeah, it's a circumcision. Egyptians circumcised at puberty. Kind of redefines "Coochie Razor" doesn't it!

Originally Posted by wdwrx

yikes!

It appears as if the fellow on the left is being restrained....

ha haha hah... and here i was thinking they were just being shaved....
I too would need to be restrained... in a big way.

If my study in anthropology is any guide, likely the experience of circumcision was also the boy's introduction to...alcoholic beverages! "Becoming a man" apparently meant getting ripped, then getting cut!

Originally Posted by wdwrx

ha haha hah... and here i was thinking they were just being shaved....
I too would need to be restrained... in a big way.

Originally Posted by LawsonStone

If my study in anthropology is any guide, likely the experience of circumcision was also the boy's introduction to...alcoholic beverages! "Becoming a man" apparently meant getting ripped, then getting cut!

LMAO! That's priceless!

Originally Posted by LawsonStone

If my study in anthropology is any guide, likely the experience of circumcision was also the boy's introduction to...alcoholic beverages! "Becoming a man" apparently meant getting ripped, then getting cut!

It's pretty obvious that the one should preceed the other! Yikes!

Wonderful thread!!! ~Richard

Who says being an Old Testament professor isn't fun?

Originally Posted by wdwrx

LMAO! That's priceless!

Originally Posted by LawsonStone

Here's the chart again. There is some text that goes with it that I can't put my hands on right now. Will link to it if I find it.

This is a great thread! Don't know how I missed it the first time around. Prof. Lawson, do yku happen to know the dates of the Danish razor in the chart? I'm interested in what may have been used by the Danes (and the Irish) in Ireland, during the reign of Brian Boru.

If you do manage to get hold of it, send it to Max, he works wonders! lol

There is a PDF also linked in that thread, same as the picture message. It has a few pages discussing the razors in the picture, and so I think the Danish razor is dated generally to "the bronze age." In the classical cultures, that's about 3000-1200 BC. In Europe, the ages run a little later. The Danish is said to be derived from a Mycenean pattern, and Mycenea (pre-Greek Greece!) is about 1400-1200 BC. So I'd put the danish blade maybe at 1000 BC, give or take.

Obviously the development of iron technology made a difference, though initially iron workers had a hard time making iron hold and edge. Just as carbon steel is easier to put an edge on than harder, modern steels, so bronze actually takes an initial edge easily. It's also repaired easily. It took many centuries for ironworkers to figure out how to get the most from iron.

Originally Posted by leadduck

This is a great thread! Don't know how I missed it the first time around. Prof. Lawson, do yku happen to know the dates of the Danish razor in the chart? I'm interested in what may have been used by the Danes (and the Irish) in Ireland, during the rain of Brian Boru.