Prosthetics in Antiquity
The Ancients
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Are These Prosesses Often Used in Burials?
People were buried with their prosesses as their grave goods. This is interesting because, considering how they were often made of precious metals or other very high end materials that you would think people would want to reuse. There are some references to processes being dedicated in temples, but again, this is because their users have finished using them. So we have an example of a man dedicating his false hair to aphrodite because he's he's aged out of all that love and romance business.
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