Thinking about the Ancient Egyptians who would take their baboon to market, so the baboon could test the fruit to make sure it was ripe and maybe attack other patrons
basket: woven figs: out baboon: on the loose
I am forcibly removed from the market place
It’s funny because the market guards would also have baboons and would just sic them on anyone they thought was stealing. So the sentence ‘mauled by baboons at the local market for looking at a lettuce suspiciously’ is entirely in line with reality.
GET 'IM BOYS
#that doesn’t sound right but I don’t know enough about ancient Egypt to dispute it…
Luckily, I do. I’m literally posting the tomb scene where the caption talks about setting baboons on the thief. Here it is in real life:
This is from the tomb of Tepemankh, 4th Dynasty, Old Kingdom, Saqqara necropolis
