10-04-2007, 01:24 PM
I don't know why a tesserarius should wear.
It its shown on some optiones gravestones of the first century, esp. of the noric-pannonic frontline, and is mostly shown a bit of men high. Most reenactors make / show it with a ball at the end, like it is sometimes shown in the sources.
But some of the staffes, which were often called hastile, end flat, thicken in the end etc.
We don't know if it is a real symbol, like the vitis for centuriones, and tool of the optiones or in special duty or something else, while theres no real evidence that it was for special duty used.
I would use it to help exercising and hold the lines.
It its shown on some optiones gravestones of the first century, esp. of the noric-pannonic frontline, and is mostly shown a bit of men high. Most reenactors make / show it with a ball at the end, like it is sometimes shown in the sources.
But some of the staffes, which were often called hastile, end flat, thicken in the end etc.
We don't know if it is a real symbol, like the vitis for centuriones, and tool of the optiones or in special duty or something else, while theres no real evidence that it was for special duty used.
I would use it to help exercising and hold the lines.
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