03-15-2006, 06:20 PM
Quote: the carvings are widely accepted as having been executed by soldiers in the field. Certainly, they are far cruder than those one sees on the Trajanic column.
They were a memorial made by soldiers, for soldiers. These people had a different agenda. If the armour plates overlapped the other way, why represent them so they overlap downwards? I would think that the last people to get it wrong would be those who used it in combat!
Why soldiers, and not local craftsmen? I know it's a popular theory that soldiers made it, but I don't see what the evidence is, so it's a very open ended subject where I feel the soldier-sculptors idea has a "romantic" whiff about it. Perhaps the absence of segs on the Adamklissi metopes are because local sculptors recreated non-legionaries (auxilia) who were there at the very time they made it? Drawing from life and accurate, but not "historically accurate"?
TARBICvS/Jim Bowers
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