The pottery potty chair

[bunnyjadwiga]

This is the Greek version:
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/18/ancient-greek-potty.html

but I'm sure I've seen a version of this in a netherlandish picture....

Comments

[pearl]

This is off topic, but I know you're looking for hygiene-related stuff.

Ieva Rėklaitytė. "Asmeninės higienos reikmenys iš Vilniaus žemutinės pilies Valdovų rūmų archeologinės medžiagos" in Archeologia Lituana No. 5 2004 pp. 121-128 Free PDF, rest of the journal here.

The title is translated as "Personal hygiene toilet items from the archaeological excavations of the Vilnius Lower Castle"

There are clearer photos of the toothbrush here. I haven't been able to track down any of the other pictures yet.

Hope this helps :)

[pearl]

Two more links that might be useful:

Juuti Petri Kaivot ja käymälät (Wells and Toilets) (Tampere University Press, 2005) ISBN: 951-44-6251-3
Can download as a PDF

Searching for other papers published by Petri here gives some more articles that may be useful, and this webpage written by him does mention toilets before 1600 in Finland.

Hope this random post helps too! :)

[bunnyjadwiga.livejournal.com]

OOH thank you lots for these articles !