09-11-2008, 01:12 PM
"Doubtful" ? Whatever do you mean by this? Surely you don't seriously think/suggest anyone today has a better idea of what these troops looked like than the Adamklissi sculptors!?
I'd suggest sticking with Adamklissi as possibly ( probably?) the most accurate portrayal of legionaries and auxiliaries circa 100 A.D. that is currently known, though it is a pity the Praetorians are invariably shown unarmoured in 'undress' etc.....perhaps that is the impression that might be most accurate....armed and in paenula, but not armoured...(?), as representative of 'typical' troops........or battle equipped, with mail, 'sub-armalis', cross re-inforced helmet, right-arm armour, greaves etc......
At all events, I would agree that as close as possible to the Adamklissi look is the best model for a Hadrianic soldier......
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As to cingula, even Trajan's column has the 'dangulum' much reduced/shortened compared to 1st century....
I'd suggest sticking with Adamklissi as possibly ( probably?) the most accurate portrayal of legionaries and auxiliaries circa 100 A.D. that is currently known, though it is a pity the Praetorians are invariably shown unarmoured in 'undress' etc.....perhaps that is the impression that might be most accurate....armed and in paenula, but not armoured...(?), as representative of 'typical' troops........or battle equipped, with mail, 'sub-armalis', cross re-inforced helmet, right-arm armour, greaves etc......
At all events, I would agree that as close as possible to the Adamklissi look is the best model for a Hadrianic soldier......
) As to cingula, even Trajan's column has the 'dangulum' much reduced/shortened compared to 1st century....
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
