This is the tenth building I have completed for my Gangs of Rome layout, a book dealer, and the kit is again another of Sarrisa's Lower Rank Insula Corner.
Roman "books" were not our modern idea of a book of course, but scrolls or "book rolls". I stupidly decided to make my scrolls by hand, when I could have just 3D printed them. That's about two hours of my life I won't get back! They probably do look a bit more authentic although because I used the pirate-map coffee staining method on them.
Apparently exteriors of bookshops were plastered with advertisements and choice quotes from the titles in stock. Martial once told a friend not to bother going in, since you could “read all the poets” on the door posts.
I've been wanting to add some greenery to my builds for some time and this time I included a trestle and climbing plant. On the blank wall of the building I made a small street shrine, likely to Jupiter.
Magnificent! Especially the small temple on the side.
ReplyDeleteThank you Ray - I've been waiting do a small shrine since I started these.
DeleteOnce again great detail Frank
ReplyDeleteThanks John.
DeleteOne of those models Ireally should have built too (a bookshop) for more modern games. It's another great models, with lots of interesting details. Your 'suburb' is becoming very large !
ReplyDeleteDidn;t Rome have what we would recognise as books too, in addition to scrolls ?
Thanks Joe. I do believe they had something known as a "codex" which were wax tablets sandwiched between wood but not a book in our modern terms.
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