The Army of Herod the Great; (New Osprey)

[Theodosius the Great]

I wish I knew what the boots on plate figures A2, C2, E3 are based on.
They're about mid-calf height with a simple double-fold on top.

I thought maybe they're from the Palestrina Nile mosaic but they don't resemble those in the artwork.

Any ideas on their origin ?

Judeans wear clavii'd tunics and some are shown clean shaven (Good!).

The hellenistic tunics are great. I'm far less sure about the clean shaven soldiers. I thought Greeks and Semites were usually bearded in most eras. The Hellenistic kings (outside of Macedonia) are usually depicted as clean-shaven on their coinage but they were trying to imitate Alexander. Of course, I expect the Celtic soldiers to be clean-shaven.

~Theo