Tekije buckle 1st century AD

[Rado]

Salve and thank you for the kind words Sam!
Thank you for your interest on my products Gaius!
If there is interest for information or ordering please in my e-mail [email protected]
Regarding on the strength of the buckles and the Belt parts I use silver proba 500. I deal with the recovery of antiquity from a long time and have enough experience.. So do not worry about the parts hardness.
I have already produced 5 silver belt and they are in reenact-colleagues.
You can see the Tekije silver Cingulum in action from centurio (this is me
and the aquilifer (my brother): http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1...572&type=1
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[Rado]

The belt was very functional in action and I had no surprises relating with him!

This is a belt which everyone who is familiar with the Roman reenacting immediately noticed!

[Rado]

Following this sketch :

Аpron studs with rivets .I have no evidence that they were hammered or cast in bronze .
These are my models that relate to Tekije silver belts.

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

Great pictures Rado! Where were the photos taken btw?

[Rado]

Thank you Byron !You mean the book that I using for the sketch ?

[ANTONIVS MAGNVS]

Excellent belt Rado. You do beautiful work. I asked this question in the belt thread. Was there evidence that there were discs held with a rivet through the middle?

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

Thank you Byron !You mean the book that I using for the sketch ?

Nope, where were you guys posing for the pictures above? Looks like the remains under the hotel I was in, in Rome! :-)

[Rado]

Jay I never have found information about proven Аpron studs used for Tekije silver belts model.
It may have been but were irretrievably lost during its discovery !? We can only speculate on this topic?!
But I have evidence for use (artifacts) for other belts of “ that there were discs held with a rivet through the middle” but still I can not share them … but this time will come soon

[Rado]

Byron these pictures are from our participation in "Meeting the Emperor Septimius Severus in Augusta Traiana" 2011 in Historical Museum in Stara Zagora-Roman city Augusta Traiana .

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

Thanks Rado! It was just that the hotel I was in has a section of Roman road and walls excavated under the lobby, and was just wondering!
Great photos and kit!

[Rado]

Byron here are the pictures from where can be seen our two belt Tekije silver Cingulum in action.Our participation at the festival Natale di Roma 2012 this year :

[Rado]

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[Rado]

From our participation at the festival Natale di Roma 2012 this year :

[ANTONIVS MAGNVS]

Jay I never have found information about proven Аpron studs used for Tekije silver belts model.
It may have been but were irretrievably lost during its discovery !? We can only speculate on this topic?!
But I have evidence for use (artifacts) for other belts of “ that there were discs held with a rivet through the middle” but still I can not share them … but this time will come soon

I hope that comes sooner than later! I'm making an apron in the next few weeks! Great pictures!

[caiusbeerquitius]

Jay I never have found information about proven Аpron studs used for Tekije silver belts model.
It may have been but were irretrievably lost during its discovery !?

As far as I found out from the original publication and the "Balkani" publication it was a hoard find, apparently containing two silver belt plate sets. One belt was a dagger belt, it had a plate with buckle, two plates with frogs, and two extra plates, so five plates altogether no other items. The second belt, apparently the corresponding sword belt, had three silver plates, one of them with a buckle. There is no reason to assume that plates or parts of the belts were missing, when it came into the ground.