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Salvete! I'm a student of Latin and classical archaeology in the University of Helsinki, Finland, and I've been interested in the Roman army since childhood. I'm here because I have few questions to ask, but I definitely would not mind to find some new friends too.
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K. Alexandra Koskinen
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Thanks for the warm welcome, Virilis.
More Finns around?
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Salvete K.A.! Welcome to the forum, it is nice to have more finns here!
This is THE PLACE :wink: !
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Darn! Babelfish don't do Suomi....
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Quote:Darn! Babelfish don't do Suomi....
It was just a small inside joke, sorry about that. Few advantages of having such small language as Finnish as your native language...
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Salve,
Here is my first attempt to impersonate a legionaire.
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![[Image: 1175023931194.jpg]](http://img.lnm.eu/lnm.eu/photos/profile/1175023931194.jpg)
Never mind the XXI-th century background and the bad quality. I've made it with a cam on my computer.
With special thanks to Marcus Mummius for selling his old lorica segmentate to me.
vale,
Ioannus
Iorus Sarcophagus Ludens
(Jo Vansteenkiste)
Viroviacum Romanum (Wervik - Belgium) [url:2hhvemuv]http://www.viroviacum.be[/url]
legionair of Legio XI CFP [url:2hhvemuv]http://www.legioxi.be[/url]
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Looks good, Jo! One of the things I envy as a "late roman" is your "flavian" guys with a Lorica Segmentata, looks simply smashing!
In fact I have toyed with an idea that ""...maybe some veteran coming back from the siege of Dura Europos (ad257) had his his first sassanian influenced (Tower n.19) helmet made somewhere along the route back, let`s say somewhere around the danube area. Adding some sarmatian influence to his new ridge helmet he thinks as a first thing when he gets back at Gaul that what the heck, my rusty age old seggie looks in fact quite good with this new helmet when I clean it up..." Usually at this point I wake up :wink: !
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