10-01-2008, 11:09 PM
Paul,
I have often read references to their being 3 distinct groups portrayed on the column and Adamklissi monument. Naturally, the column would be populated predominantly by Dacians, the mounted Sarmatians are easy to identify, but I haven't read which figures are supposed to be the Bastarnae.
How are you identifying them? It can't be the hats. Decebalus, a Dacian, wears the same hat as those on the Adamklissi monument. Is it the trousers? I have read that baggy trousers in Roman sculpture are meant to represent people of the east. I see some german hair styles on the column, but I don't see any characteristically baggy trousers. Couldn't the figures on the Adamklissi monument merely be Dacians sculpted in a different style than Trajan's column (rather than a different people)? Can you recommend writing on this subject?
P.S. Isn't "falx" the accepted term for the "two-handed, inward curving cutting weapon"?
I have often read references to their being 3 distinct groups portrayed on the column and Adamklissi monument. Naturally, the column would be populated predominantly by Dacians, the mounted Sarmatians are easy to identify, but I haven't read which figures are supposed to be the Bastarnae.
How are you identifying them? It can't be the hats. Decebalus, a Dacian, wears the same hat as those on the Adamklissi monument. Is it the trousers? I have read that baggy trousers in Roman sculpture are meant to represent people of the east. I see some german hair styles on the column, but I don't see any characteristically baggy trousers. Couldn't the figures on the Adamklissi monument merely be Dacians sculpted in a different style than Trajan's column (rather than a different people)? Can you recommend writing on this subject?
P.S. Isn't "falx" the accepted term for the "two-handed, inward curving cutting weapon"?
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