[Sca-cooks] 7th C tattoos

[Terry Decker]

Vitriol is sulfuric acid or any of several mineral sulfates (not just iron
sulfate) and a gall is the swollen part of a plant containing insect eggs,
not just the eggs themselves, so the translation is open to question without
the original to verify it.

Aetius of Amida is a 6th Century Byzantine physician who wrote a major
medical text.  He is credited with describing various opthomalic surgeries
and being one of the first to accurately describe diptheria.  He also wrote
on tattoos and their removal.

Keep in mind that the Latin for tattoo is "stigma" for "stain" or "mark."
It was used to describe the marks found on barbarians, slaves and convicts.
Because of the connotations, it is doubtful a "proper" Roman would have had
a tattoo.

Bear




>'bella declared:
>speaking of recipes...scrooll past the photos...to the recipe for tattooing
in
>7th century
>Rome...wow... I don't think so..
>'bella
>http://www.vanishingtattoo.com/tattoos.htm
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>
>So, why do you say "I don't think so.."? You think there is a problem
>with the recipe? Or you don't think the Romans would have done this?
>Is there an original quote of this Aetius? There are folks around who
>can verify the translation.
>
>Thanks,
>  Stefan