02-05-2010, 07:55 PM
Peroni,
I have a high resolution picture from the British Museum and the holes on the Dubitatus are round not rectangular.
In any event, are you suggesting that clenched nails are incorrect or that this drawing is an alternative. The reason I ask is because it may give some credence to the idea that maybe the Tyne and Vindonissa bosses may have been for use on parades and removable rivets would allow for simpler umbones to be replaced by decorative ones.
However, this would lead to the idea that soldiers carried around a spare umbo for parades and since soliders had to carry their equipment, I think that a second umbo would have been something less necessary than an extra sword, pilum, etc....
I have a high resolution picture from the British Museum and the holes on the Dubitatus are round not rectangular.
In any event, are you suggesting that clenched nails are incorrect or that this drawing is an alternative. The reason I ask is because it may give some credence to the idea that maybe the Tyne and Vindonissa bosses may have been for use on parades and removable rivets would allow for simpler umbones to be replaced by decorative ones.
However, this would lead to the idea that soldiers carried around a spare umbo for parades and since soliders had to carry their equipment, I think that a second umbo would have been something less necessary than an extra sword, pilum, etc....
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Paolo
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