I know where the ear is, but I am not aware of a body part called the
"Ottoman Empire".  Where exactally is that, anatomically speaking?<G>

joy

radei

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: lilinah@earthlink.net
  To: sca-cooks@ansteorra.org
  Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] body piercings
  Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:17:56 -0700


  On 8/29/05, Stefan li Rous wrote:
  > Does anyone know if body piercings were practiced by any of the
  > cultures we study? I know that the Church frowned upon tattoos, so
  > they were not very common, and I imagine that the Church would say
  > the same thing about piercings. I do have some info on ear rings
  for
  > both males and females in period, but I'm thinking of other parts
  of
  > the body.

  Like Asim, i've mostly seen piercings in period - other than in
  ears - in the Ottoman Empire.

  There are pictures in the Codex Vindobonensis 8626 (circa 1590), in
  the Austrian National Library, believed to have been painted
  between 1586 and 1591 by an unknown south German artist in the
  suite of Bartolemeo di Pezzana, ambassador of the Holy Roman
  Emperor Rudolph II to the Sultan.

  There are many pictures from this book at
  http://home.fuse.net/ihorowit/Ottomania.htm
  Some are perfectly "safe", others are very clearly NOT WORK OR
  CHILD SAFE, so view at your own risk.

  Hi, Asim!
  -- Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
  the persona formerly known as Anahita
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