Salt kegs

Superficial neck contours

Salt pots ( Fossa supraclavicularis , "upper clavicle fossa ") are called the depressions that arise above the chest behind the collarbones, especially in women. They are not to be confused with the thrush fossa ( fossa jugularis ) located in the middle below the larynx .

Salt kegs can be observed in an upright posture, especially in slim people with protruding collarbones. However, they can also be created by deliberately folding the shoulder blades forward.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, salt vats were seen as an erotic part of the body in Central and Western Europe; The story Royal Highness by Thomas Mann is evidence of this . Here it is the daughter of the middle-class soap maker Unschlitt who is dangerous to Prince Klaus Heinrich with her salt barrels. In the Zauberberg too, salt kegs are one of the positively rated physical characteristics of a woman. The "overcrowded" is described in the chapter "Dance of Death" as follows:

"Her neck was girlish, with 'salt barrels' over her delicate collarbones, and her breast, too, under the linen of laughter and shortness of breath held in restless, short and struggling movements, seemed tender and young."