01-20-2007, 01:13 PM
Hi
Mike and Jim are quite correct. Many groups have simply copied the Optio impression by the Ermine Street Guard even down to the black and white crest and leather satchel carrying writing tablets. In fact the only certain evidence we have is an optio's ring and a couple of tombstones showing Optiones with a knobbed staff. Otherwise the ESG equipment was based on the tombstone of legionary Crispus.
Graham.
Mike and Jim are quite correct. Many groups have simply copied the Optio impression by the Ermine Street Guard even down to the black and white crest and leather satchel carrying writing tablets. In fact the only certain evidence we have is an optio's ring and a couple of tombstones showing Optiones with a knobbed staff. Otherwise the ESG equipment was based on the tombstone of legionary Crispus.
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
