#osterby man

[grimmborg-in-the-bog]

save me bog bodies

[saraphimshpatar]

First century Germanic man worshipping at sacred grove

By: Me

My art insta: Scythian.warlord

A painting of mine from over a year ago. I attempted to reconstruct the man’s face based on the Osterby man, a bog body, and I based his clothes and pose off a Roman statuette from around the same period, of a Germanic man with the same Suebian knot hairstyle. Some is my artistic interpretation, other is based off real historical findings.

[missanthropicprinciple]

I often forget I have hair like the Osterby Man. Happy Bog Day.

[ancienthairstyles]

The Suebian Knot is a hairstyle (at this moment) exclusively known for the Germanic tribe Suebi, located in modern day Germany and dated just around the first century B.C.

Celtic and Germanic tribes used oils and other natural products to style the hair. This hairstyle is believed to be a style worn by warriors or at least into the battlefield. The style is found on two German bog bodies, like the Osterby Man above, as well on stone images.

The hair is divided in two parts and twisted into a rope braid like braid and styled with the ends twisted strongly around the base. The bog didn’t preserve the Osterby Man completely like more famous mummies, but his hairstyle is remarkably preserved. The reddish colour is not his natural hair colour, but changed into this during his time in the bog.

[i don’t own this image in any way]

[bbwveneregiunonica]

Osterby man (Or Osterby head) The "Osterby Man" was found in a peat bog in 1948 CE near Osterby, Germany and has been dated to between 75 and 130 CE. He sports a Suebian knot, a hairstyle associated with the Suebi (Alemanni). Now on display at the State Archaeological Museum at Gottorf Castle in Schleswig, Germany. more info: Osterby Man (Illustration) - World History Encyclopedia

[korusalka]

"The jawbone did not belong on the skull"

[korusalka]

filed under “things that keep me up at night”

[gunhilde]

The Osterby Head, late Iron Age to Roman period, on display in the Archaeological Museum, Gottorf Castle, Schleswig

Discovered by peat cutters in 1948, the head was originally found wrapped in a deerskin cape. Despite a thorough search the rest of the body has never come to light. Skeletal evidence suggests that this individual was male and around 50-60 years old. The skull shows evidence of a potentially fatal blunt force injury to the left temple as well as cut marks to the second cervical vertebra from beheading.

The distinctive hairstyle known as the Suebian knot is described by Tacitus in his Germania as typical for free men of the Suebi tribe. This style also appears in Roman artwork and on another bog body found several metres away.

Suebian knot tutorial taken from the museum display at Gottorf Caslte.