>>1261442>Weight distributionThe most historically accurate basket that can be reconstructed from images on Greek art, is the calathus, a roughly cylindrical basket. This was a basket that was quite deep and narrow, with a flaring top. They were made of small pieces of wood, often twigs, and reeds. Apparently they were efficacious at bringing in fruit and other materials in from the fields at harvest, so we can assume that they're likely strong enough to carry whatever is needed in a typical light backpack. The shape is all wrong, however; it would be exceedingly difficult to secure it to my back, and probably impossible to fit everything that I needed into the odd-shaped container. So that's right out, but I think that they probably also had more normal-shaped baskets which didn't make it into the surviving artwork. Who would want to paint a basket anyway?
So instead let us imagine a regular cylinder basket shape. Something like pic related. I think that this shape is probably one that would allow for easy and regular storage of everything else needed, and it doesn't seem too particularly difficult to secure it to my body. I think that a pair of leather straps crossing over the torso from the shoulders would provide optimal stability without too much stress on the shoulders. Of course, this only works if the overall amount of equipment is greatly reduced, to keep the weight as low as possible. I think this is doable and I will continue my thoughts in the thread.
