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What is this 3D model?

🕑 Added 2023-11-09 20:03:17 +0000 UTC

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Steven M. Frisby

Agreed: Looks like the early device used to try to unroll the carbonized Herculaneum scrolls.

Caroline W

A scytale encryption device used to make thin strips of messages that could be wrapped round a scroll disguising the real intent of battle planning.

David

I think it might be for unrolling and reading lead scrolls/curses

Robert Talamantez

Love these models; keep 'em coming!

Stefanie Messialle

hello its the member with aspergers autism i been looking at it looks like a parchement reader or parchement dryer just an idea .8-)(-;>0.0<

Graham Dombkins

I thought we were beyond unrolling scrolls from antiquity. The amazing success I’ve seen in “reading” the Herculaneum scrolls I hope stops people physically damaging these objects any more. If we can’t do it now, leave it for the next gen and better tech.

Cheryl Kurucz

🧐🤔❤️❤️❤️❤️

Noblesse Oblige

I agree with everyone who thinks it's for unrolling the Herculaneum burned scrolls. It worked a little bit but mostly destroyed them instead. So thrilled to hear about the newly developed tech for non-invasively reading them at last!

Jakub Jůzl

Definitely an antique japanese sushi roller. :)

Russell Neilsen

I suggest it's either a lead scroll, or possibly velum, which is loaded into the suspension straps with the weight carried by the curved metal underneath. It would appear to be to unroll the scroll slowly so as to not damage it. Between lowering the curved metal support and tightening the screws at the top the scroll can be gently unrolled and read. I note that there are letters on the reverse where the letters on the front have disappeared. Unless it's a Phoenician menu that is rolled for breakfast, partly unrolled for lunch, and fully unrolled for dinner.

Susie Martin

Early printing machine?

Kerry Hennigan

Like Sandy, I thought of the efforts to preserve and unroll the scrolls from the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum.

Hove Steve

Medieval Kindle

Sandy Seton-Browne

Possibly a device designed to unroll Herculaneum scrolls or Dead Sea scrolls.

Flumbo

My son and I vote for a lead scroll unroller, with a height controller to see as much of the scroll as you want at once. We can’t decide what the bowl and spoon are for though. Oil?

Dave Couchman-Boor

I am not sure but the writing looks like it might be Hebrew . I think it might be a stand for reading scripture.

Kate

Poor Stewart.

Kate

It looks like something to do with rolling/unrolling of lead scrolls. The stand is adjustable for the size and weight of the scroll, both the holder and the table. Wouldn't you write on lead with a stylus? That writing looks more like brush and ink. Is the dish for liquid ink and the spoon for smashing the ink stick and stirring in the water? Is it Greek or some Middle Eastern script? Looks like Alpha, epsilon, lambda, sigma, chi and other characters I don't recognize.

Kathleen Garza

Interesting. Is it for pressing the oils out of plants?

Mario Papworth

rolling out lead? all their water pipes were made from lead , in this case flashing for roofs? just a punt

Loz

A trouser press for squirrels?

James Leighninger

It’s not Latin, that’s for sure.

stuart sutcliffe

Is it a roman lead scroll unraveler

stuart sutcliffe

Is It a roman lead scroll unraveled?

barbara blue

I agree with Steve Egyptian papyrus scroll unroller 📜

Time Team

Is it Stewart's bar tab after the Knights Hospitaller dig?

James Leighninger

Is the writing In Greek?

Clare Stapleton

the device developed to unroll the Herculaneum scrolls. The idea was that the unrolled scroll would emerge from the slot at the top of the machine and then be supported onto a receiving piece of linen.