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Quote: And if you can't see the armguard, don't blame me, you probably aren't squinting in just the right way
The 2 lines on the left that diverge at an angle towards the bottom?
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Quote:The 2 lines on the left that diverge at an angle towards the bottom?
That's the chappy. Here's Lindenschmit's drawing from AuhV of what he thought he saw on the flanking friezes. Sadly the archive.org copies of AuhV don't include all the plates (Google's automatic scanning machines seem to get confused by tissue inserts protecting plates and they can't do throwouts either).
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Quote:The 2 lines on the left that diverge at an angle towards the bottom?
Nah -- clearly the base unit of a Minuteman ICBM. Clearly. (I've checked my notes ... :wink: )
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Quote: (I've checked my notes ... :wink: )
In Ogham, by any chance? :lol:
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Here's a biggie: 36 photos of P. Flavoleius Cordus of legio XIV Gemina (pedants need not bother telling me it says XIIII on the tombstone). Interesting details include a possible amentum for his ? pilum; the clearest boots of all the Rhineland tombstones (soles and lacing ridges carved, the rest presumably added in paint); the usual 'apron', belts, pre-Flavian tunic and cummberbund, as well as the mysterious box above the belt (with a hint of a suspension strap for it). The reason the pilum seems to have a strange terminal is that it, like Vonatorix's foot, was in high relief and thus had to be on a plinth.
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The entire tombstone set is here.
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Phew! I was starting to get withdrawal symptoms. Two Days Without A Tombstone. (Great title for a spaghetti western?)
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Putting aside the echoing Morricone music for the moment...and jumping in with both feet (as usual)...
...not an optio with his staff and tablets then?
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Quote:Putting aside the echoing Morricone music for the moment...and jumping in with both feet (as usual)...
Dung, dugga dugga dugga dugga, dung DUNG!
Quote:...not an optio with his staff and tablets then?
As Eric Morecambe might say, he hasn't got tablets, he's got the scrolls! The inscription doesn't call him an optio and the shafty thing is probably a bit long for an optio's staff (or stave; take your pick). Probably don't need a throwing strap with one either.
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Quote:Two Days Without A Tombstone. (Great title for a spaghetti western?)
Doc Holiday tensed in the dark and reached for his Totenmahl (with apologies to the late great Alan Coren).
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Quote:Doc Holiday tensed in the dark and reached for his Totenmahl ...
Blast! Another web site to distract me from real work.
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Blast! Another web site to distract me from real work. Hope you've read this (The Good Dr Coulston put me onto it: my childhood encapsulated!).
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I really am beginning to worry about you two...
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Quote:I really am beginning to worry about you two...
Only now?!  hock:
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Quote:Vindex post=306435 Wrote:I really am beginning to worry about you two...
Only now?! hock:
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