03-07-2008, 10:15 PM
On the principle that one picture is worth a thousand words, here are the three 'racial types' shown on the Column and the Tropaeum...as can be seen, they are quite distinctive...
My apologies for the quality.
1.Left figure.Dacian wearing belted long sleeved tunic, split either side, tight trousers - the garb of Dacians as shown in particular on the Column.
2.Centre figure - Germanic/Bastarnae, bare chested, (but here with poncho/paenula style cloak), loose baggy trousers, and 'Suebian knot'(not always present, though hair is always centre-parted).
3.Right figure. Sarmatian in short sleeved coat/kaftan, split at front to high waist, knee length 'cavalry' boots, 'page boy/pudding bowl' hair-cut
My apologies for the quality.
1.Left figure.Dacian wearing belted long sleeved tunic, split either side, tight trousers - the garb of Dacians as shown in particular on the Column.
2.Centre figure - Germanic/Bastarnae, bare chested, (but here with poncho/paenula style cloak), loose baggy trousers, and 'Suebian knot'(not always present, though hair is always centre-parted).
3.Right figure. Sarmatian in short sleeved coat/kaftan, split at front to high waist, knee length 'cavalry' boots, 'page boy/pudding bowl' hair-cut
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
