03-29-2013, 09:34 PM
I'm sorry maybe I missed this in the earlier thread, but if the earlier example you are referencing had no animal head (especially lacking the head of a dragon), Why are we referring to it as a "draco"? Isn't that term kind of specific to the dragon standard?
I argue this point all the time with someone who insists that Roman socks were made using Nalbinding, it might be a similar constrcution method, but Nalbinding is a Norwegian term, and it should be something more Romanised... A point Graham Sumner makes in Roman Miliray Dress.
This I think is a similar situation, where you are giving a Romanised name to something that is clearly not Roman, although bearing some of the same charicteristics.
If only those Steppe tribe could have taken the time to invent a written language to tell us what these things were.
I argue this point all the time with someone who insists that Roman socks were made using Nalbinding, it might be a similar constrcution method, but Nalbinding is a Norwegian term, and it should be something more Romanised... A point Graham Sumner makes in Roman Miliray Dress.
This I think is a similar situation, where you are giving a Romanised name to something that is clearly not Roman, although bearing some of the same charicteristics.
If only those Steppe tribe could have taken the time to invent a written language to tell us what these things were.