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Roman army in Egypt
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There wasn't that much 'Egyptian' culture left at the time, and I suspect the legions would mostly be in contact with the heavily hellenised part. Now, I'm not anywhere near an expert on military gear, but it looks like there were no great differences in the equipment between provinces and regions. The most likely area where you would see differences is in clothing and small personal items. Of course, Egypt produced textiles for export, inclding cvery likely miltary clothes so the difference wouldn't have been huge, but I still suspect a relative dearth of trousers and chequered fabrics and a greater density of digamma-decoration and floppy sandals.

Local religious colour is likely, but that was heavily syncretised.
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Volker Bach
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Roman army in Egypt - by germanslinger37 - 02-03-2009, 04:27 AM
Re: Roman army in Egypt - by Joe Hall - 02-03-2009, 10:28 AM
Re: Roman army in Egypt - by Carlton Bach - 02-03-2009, 02:18 PM
Re: Roman army in Egypt - by ioannes sebald - 02-03-2009, 03:35 PM
Re: Roman army in Egypt - by Matthew Amt - 02-03-2009, 08:33 PM
Re: Roman army in Egypt - by Graham Sumner - 02-04-2009, 12:47 AM
Re: Roman army in Egypt - by germanslinger37 - 02-04-2009, 04:35 AM

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