01-02-2009, 12:51 PM
I thought I had seen some of these drawings and paintings before, they are in Neil Faulkner's book 'Apocalypse' on the Jewish revolt.
Always risky to state about any reconstruction that this is how it actually was. I am sure that we can all debate about many points of detail in the reconstruction.
Graham.
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A legionary of the mid 1st century AD. This picture shows the soldier as he actually was: the armour is of iron- it is dark, and greased to keep out rust (it would not have been brightly polished steel- unlike that of modern re-enactors)
The artist states that here:
http://www.archaeoart.co.uk/characters/ ... ionary.htm
What do you people think about it?
Always risky to state about any reconstruction that this is how it actually was. I am sure that we can all debate about many points of detail in the reconstruction.
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.
