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Wow magnificent!!!
wish I had one like it!
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Pretty fancy. I wonder why it is that few reproductions are of what a typical soldier's gear would look like?
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Quote:Pretty fancy. I wonder why it is that few reproductions are of what a typical soldier's gear would look like?
I guess if you go through the trouble of acquiring the skills to make your own, you don't want it to look cheap. As to commercial production, I wish there was more like that.
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It's a beauty Lucius!
Could someone tell me what exactly a typical soldier's pugio from the late first century looked like.
Another question: around what date did the pugio disappear in the second century AD?
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SALVE,
That was a typical legionary's pugio. Practically all the exemplars of pugiones are highly decorated. So, why do you say that don't depict the common ones?
Undecorated pugiones are very few exemplars.
So, if you want to depict a typical legionary, you must to show a highly decorated pugio. If you shows a plain ones, you are showing the exception, not the rule...
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I think it is very, very beautiful, Lucius...
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