Evidently it really was probably a cucumber? http://artisticlicenseorwhyitrustnoone.blogspot.com/2022/11/bullshit-memes-8-ancient-egyptian.html?m=1
tl;dr - was found with other model food, probably meant to sustain someone in the afterlife
Let me guess. A model carrot, squash was there also. And a drawing of a farmer with his shirt off.
How thoughtful of them to ensure that the deceased would have something to put up their butt in the underworld.
Sustain someone with the ability to have a little sexy time in the afterlife? I like this.
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.
From the article I linked with the item in the context of other finds at the same site…
History joke I heard once: if a history book says an object was used for "ritual purposes" that means they haven't got a clue, unless they specify "fertility rituals" which means they know exactly what it was used for but can't write that in a highschool history textbook.
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.
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.
This is the economy model. Made for the common folk, not Cleopatra. (That is just an urban legend btw.)
I was not aware of this urban legend, but I will repeat it anyways because it's funny.
you know, after reading and viewing the depictions in the wikipedia article I am going to just keep my mouth shut.
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.
The person you're replying to is talking about the text in the image. "Is it though. Is it a model cucumber." which should have two question marks.
The Egyptlogists might have some additional context and knowledge that some rando on Twitter might now.
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.
that said, yeah, I still definitely trust the experts more
My wife's been reading this book that references this. As well so many other cases of men assuming genders or 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Women:_Exposing_Data_Bias_in_a_World_Designed_for_Men
Yeah, I'm also guessing the Tweeter is just a masterbator, not a real doctorbator with a PhD in D.
And there is some green coloration on it, indicating the dildo was once painted to look like a cucumber. Derek Smalls gets it.
Shouldn't have just assumed but in that case it was the correct assumption vast majority of the time. Still bad to assume.
it kinda wasn't
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!
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.
Was talking more about how many people are insisting cucumbers and eggplants should actually be used like that
"Model cucumber? Hell, nah, son. That there's a petrified hunk 'a' dooky."
"Ah man, I ate off that thing!"