Tropaeum Traiani versus Trajans Column

[Tarbicus]

Jim, I can't see how you can say the helmets on TT are Gallic G. They are so poorly defined that they could be anything from Italic to Gallic with expanded cross bracing.

I didn't say Gallic, I said Italic and Aquincum, but the fact is the forms fit with the archaeological evidence umpteen times more than anything seen on TC. Not to mention the rest of the gear they wear.



http://museums.ncl.ac.uk/archive/arma/c ... tope18.htm

Who is more likely to see a real Roman soldier from a campaign? A city dwelling sculptor in Rome (the city where soldiers seldom went), or a conquered sculptor in Dacia (nation that had shed loads of the beggars roaming the streets and countryside)?