02-05-2010, 08:26 AM
Quote:I think that the weapons in the picture you have posted up are indeed likely to be gaesa / soleferra. They seem to be all-iron weapons and the heads are of a size and shape to penetrate quite easily. In fact I think your picture proves what I have been suggesting: that the weapon with the socketed shank and large barbs was not a gaesum but something else we do not know the correct name for. It is clearly a different weapon to the ones yu show in the illustration which do indeed seem to match with the description in the sources.
Crispvs
Ehemmm... it's 3-4 posts that I'm saying: the weapon with the socketed shank isn't the Gaesum/soliferrum, but the saunia/saunion.
In Celtic context, you can find it in the III B.C. in Cisalpine, and in II B.C. in Transalpine.
It's a weapon hat was taken by the Celts from Umbro-Sabellian, but it's very ancient (first examples in villanovian necropolis).
In Italy archaeologist use to call it "Type-Pium" or "Proto-Pilum" Javelin.
