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Cucumber 🥒
Submitted 1 month ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Apytele@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
superkret@feddit.org 1 month ago
“I found a strange fucking object” vs “I found a strange fucking object”
loopedcandle@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
I hope this is your highest voted comment on Lemmy.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 month ago
“It’s a ritual!” is a classic archaeology meme.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Motel of the Mysteries is basically this joke explored over 95 pages, lovingly illustrated by David Macaulay, the guy who did those black and white books Cathedral, Pyramid, Castle, and The Way Things Work, as well as others. It’s hilarious.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 1 month ago
It was probably used for religious purposes of some sort
qprimed@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
indeed. coming closer to believed gods is important to some in any society. its just a clear in and out conclusion.
Hupf@feddit.org 1 month ago
Usage was frequently accompanied by callings to a deity from a trance like state.
hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No you see they know it’s a cucumber because ancient Egyptian dildos had a compartment for bees so that users could experience a vibration effect.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 month ago
This is the economy model. Made for the common folk.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 month ago
I was not aware of this urban legend, but I will repeat it anyways because it’s funny.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
There appear to be traces of green paint, but even then I would be very suspicious unless this was found with a bunch of other, less phallic model vegetables.
The_v@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s just Min.
qprimed@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
you know, after reading and viewing the depictions in the wikipedia article I am going to just keep my mouth shut.
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Mood
Nyx0r@discuss.online 1 month ago
Likely used for ceremonial purposes.
stoy@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Perhaps it was located next to a pair of model tomatoes
credo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Where are the ‘?’ marks. Is this how people write now.
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Imagine yourself being confused and baffled by something, and asking “Really?”. The intonation is rising, as is usual in questions. Imagine yourself hearing someone say something you are completely confident is absurdly false or a lie, and you want to suggest to the person that they’re wrong and you know the truth, by sarcastically asking “Really?”. The intonation is falling, closer to ordinary statements of fact.
OOP is using the full stop at the end of his “questons” to suggest the second, sarcastic intonation.
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s how people spoke in May of 2021. It was a different time.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It’s a unicode emoji of a cucumber that your device apparently doesn’t support
essteeyou@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The person you’re replying to is talking about the text in the image. “Is it though. Is it a cucumber.” which should have two question marks.
match@pawb.social 1 month ago
is there a problem か
Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Grammar is made up
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 month ago
The Egyptlogists might have some additional context and knowledge that some rando on Twitter might now.
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 1 month ago
sure, but experts have been making bad assumptions before.
Like archaeologists up until relatively recently have been calling viking graves with swords in male, without really looking at the actual skeleton.
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
My wife been reading this book that references this. As well so many other cases of men assuming disregarding women in science, among other things. It’s crazy. “hmm that skeleton has wide hips, but it is also buried with a sword, so it’s a man”. Female physiology traits in a man is way more plausible, than a woman being buried with a sword … wtf?!?
Anyway, the book is next on my reading list en.wikipedia.org/…/Invisible_Women:_Exposing_Data…
cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world 1 month ago
I’m thinking they found other fruit/veggie/food models with the dildo.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Shouldn’t have just assumed but in that case it was the correct assumption vast majority of the time. Still bad to assume.
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
But did cucumbers look like that 4000 years ago?
ethd@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Same energy as “Sappho and her friend spent every waking hour together and they were roommates too, what a lovely example of a definitely straight woman”
10_0@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Do a scientific test were you put it in front of a cat and see what happens
Comment105@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Then do the same test but you put it in front of Catharina, and see what happens.
MeatPilot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Etterra@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Remember that the idiots in the 19th & 20th centuries uncovering all kinds of Egyptian stuff purposefully damaged inscriptions and art because they prominently showed gasp penises!
voldage@lemmy.world 1 month ago
As we well know all women and men in history that lived together with someone of the same gender were just friends. There are many historical records in which esteemed historians depicted the factual truth of deep friendships. Luckily for the rest of us, those noble seers always knew all context required and bore no prejudices towards anything whatsoever. That is a model cucumber. It even tastes like one.
Damage@feddit.it 1 month ago
I’m the model of a cucumber Egyptian
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 month ago
“Model cucumber. Hell, nah, son. That there’s a petrified hunk ‘a’ dooky.”
“Ah man, I ate of that thing!”
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 1 month ago
There are some people in here who are weirdly obsessed with risking a yeast infection.
nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 1 month ago
But bro
You could get yourself a yeast infection with 3000 year old yeast
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Was talking more about how many people are insisting cucumbers and eggplants should actually be used like that
match@pawb.social 1 month ago
sourdough infection
10_0@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
If they found green dye on it sure, if not then it might be…
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 month ago
A cuke named Duke
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
See also “ancient stone tool.”
geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Evidently it really was probably a cucumber? …blogspot.com/…/bullshit-memes-8-ancient-egyptian…
tl;dr - was found with other model food, probably meant to sustain someone in the afterlife
kamenlady@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sustain someone with the ability to have a little sexy time in the afterlife? I like this.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No it was a final insult, telling them to go fk themselves /s
Alice@beehaw.org 1 month ago
People just love to assume that archeologists have no idea what sex or gay people are. Not saying there isn’t a problem with that, but the memes are overblown.
I remember seeing a ton of “archeologists: tHeY’rE jUsT fRiEnDs” comments on an ancient illustration of two Egyptian men, when every single source I could find explained why they seem to have been a gay couple.
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Seems like a case where a particular claim of a select group was generalised over a supergroup by way of being the subject of memes that ran away with the stereotype.
It’s like that one fraud falsifying studies about a specific type of vaccines in an attempt to sell his own, only for people to latch on to the “vaccine bad” part of the story without limit, nuance or critical examination.
Does anyone still know where the original “just friends” claim stems from, in which context, supported by which arguments, what refutations have been offered since and just how widespread among archaeologists it is today?
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
also like, is it really that hard to imagine that archeologists went “well this is a gay couple but uh, we can’t really say that, so let’s just informally agree that ‘close friends’ is euphemism for ‘gay couple’, okay?”
M137@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Wakes up in the afterlife only to bite into fake food, that’s gotta suck.
Lobreeze@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You ever tried eating a mouldy cucumber?
Tiltinyall@beehaw.org 1 month ago
“sustain”
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 1 month ago
IM sure that’s what they wrote down and I’m sure that’s what the person who had it commissioned said it was but the one thing I am more sure of is that this is not a cucumber and nobody who ever saw it has ever thought it is a cucumber.
geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 1 month ago
From the article I linked with the item in the context of other finds at the same site…
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