01-11-2007, 07:13 PM
Mine's just a standard pompeiensis, but one thing that's different from most is that I have a newfound love of all the seemingly personal markings on Roman equipment, so I 'personalized' my gladius 
In this case I went by the 'Guttmann' gladius and used its Centurio marking (a soldier's Century seems to have been denoted not by a number, but by the name of the Centurio) and then added my own chosen Roman name using letterforms from the original gladius and other original pieces.
The marking reads:
> C VALERI PR
C LVCILVI VAR
standing for (Centurio) GAIVS VALERIVS PRIMVS
GAIVS LVCILIVS VARVS
I replicated the Centurio marking right from the original- including the fact that it's not even close to being straight, evenly-spaced, etc. and tried to keep my personal marking consistent this way.
In this case I went by the 'Guttmann' gladius and used its Centurio marking (a soldier's Century seems to have been denoted not by a number, but by the name of the Centurio) and then added my own chosen Roman name using letterforms from the original gladius and other original pieces.The marking reads:
> C VALERI PR
C LVCILVI VAR
standing for (Centurio) GAIVS VALERIVS PRIMVS
GAIVS LVCILIVS VARVS
I replicated the Centurio marking right from the original- including the fact that it's not even close to being straight, evenly-spaced, etc. and tried to keep my personal marking consistent this way.
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