07-23-2012, 01:15 AM
While making a scabbard for my Scythian/Sarmatian akinakes using these pictures:
I can't help but wonder wether the similarities between these akinakes scabbards and the pugio scabbards are al but pure coincidence.
Knowing the fact that the Romans borrowed a lot of the ideas for their military equipment from other cultures and their former enemies. I wouldn't be supriced if the design of their pugio scabbard has his ancestor from the South Russian planes...
I also for a long time wondered were the two lower attachement "rings" were for, could it be, that ones these where used to secure the pugio with an extra tie around the leg?
Is there anyone of you knowledgeable Roman forumites who knows more about this?
Or have I just figured something out that every Roman reenactors already knew for a long time??? :mrgreen: :roll: :?:
I can't help but wonder wether the similarities between these akinakes scabbards and the pugio scabbards are al but pure coincidence.
Knowing the fact that the Romans borrowed a lot of the ideas for their military equipment from other cultures and their former enemies. I wouldn't be supriced if the design of their pugio scabbard has his ancestor from the South Russian planes...
I also for a long time wondered were the two lower attachement "rings" were for, could it be, that ones these where used to secure the pugio with an extra tie around the leg?
Is there anyone of you knowledgeable Roman forumites who knows more about this?
Or have I just figured something out that every Roman reenactors already knew for a long time??? :mrgreen: :roll: :?:
Folkert van Wijk
Celtic Auxilia, Legio II Augusta.
With a wide interrest for everything Celtic BC
Celtic Auxilia, Legio II Augusta.
With a wide interrest for everything Celtic BC