Archaeologists work in the area of the latrina in ancient city of Smyrna, Izmir, western Turkey, Nov. 3, 2021. (AA Photo)
Archaeologists work in the area of the latrina in ancient city of Smyrna, Izmir, western Turkey, Nov. 3, 2021. (AA Photo)
To paraphrase an old cheech and chong skit...
“Is that poo?” “yeah” “Good thing we not step in it.”
Dig around an old latrine, one can finds all kinds of shiite.
Not to be confused with a wise Latina..,.
I could just imagine the conversation there. “You’re still performing that old Plautus stuff? That guy’s a downer. Try your hand at Seneca, much fresher material.”
Who’d a thunk it? People back then had to urinate and defecate too. Hard to believe. Learn something new every day!
I guess if you are an archeologist sometimes you find gold and sometimes you find...
I once had an unsatisfactory transaction at a fast food joint. Her name tag proudly proclaimed her to be Latrina. Mother must have been a seer.
I spent a week in Turkey back in the ‘80s, and saw a community toilet something like this one at Ephesus. A friend and I went for a week and hired our own guide, a very nice man with a wonderful new car. He took us to the loo and told us everyone tries it out. So we sat.
Laughter ensued.
It was probably the Ladies Room...just sayin'!
A decade or two ago, I went to the 4th of July celebration at the Hatch Shell in Boston, and as usual, it was jammed with hordes of people. They had set up a long row of port-o-potties, but only the women were going inside to use them.
On the back sides of them (which faced the river) there were rows of men peeing on the back of the port-o-potties. The State Police, in a parked car driven along the pedestrian pathway, turned on their spotlight and trained it on the urinating men highlighting them starkly in a large, bright circle of light...
The urinators continued unperturbed...:)
And then they discovered the ladies’ room, which was filled with skeletons in groups of three.
were they all women?
“Ongoing excavations have revealed a historical latrina”
Did they find anything that the men could use? Perhaps a “latrinex”.
I wonder why they all just dropped dead in line?
A likely place to find a Rosetta Stone-like partition.
“Don’t worry... Return of the King still has some more epilogues.”
LOLOLOLOL at your addition to the headline. Pretty sure those were girl skeletons that were found!
The archaeologists also found what they believe to be the concession stand for the theater, having uncovered a number of ancient boxes of Milk Duds and Good N’ Plenty.
