Adding another tidbit of grounded reality - descriptions like the above should often be taken as tongue-in-cheek. Historians are only using the information given, so they can’t say FOR SURE it’s depicting two women lovers, but given the surrounding context it may be the most reasonable assumption.
“Who knows what these wacky ladies might be up to. Maybe they’re eating soup. Maybe some light lesbianism. Maybe it’s mercury poisoning. Who are we to say?”
Adding another tidbit of grounded reality - descriptions like the above should often be taken as tongue-in-cheek. Historians are only using the information given, so they can’t say FOR SURE it’s depicting two women lovers, but given the surrounding context it may be the most reasonable assumption.
“Who knows what these wacky ladies might be up to. Maybe they’re eating soup. Maybe some light lesbianism. Maybe it’s mercury poisoning. Who are we to say?”
historians and archeologists should just start using this in place of a description