12-12-2003, 12:23 PM
Crispvs<br>
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I read you post with great interest. As I havn't seen this tombstone I hadn't realised how worn it was. I have looked at all the pictures in the RomanArmy.com imagebase and there is only one figure who is wearing a helmet ( the soldier from Hungry) All the rest have bare heads(This doesn't include Calvary tombstones where the soldier is mounted). This makes it quite lightly that he isn't wearing a helmet either and the Bit sticking up is part of the fluting on the top of his niche. As to the axe? it could be a scroll. Some soldiers are shown holding a scroll sometimes vertically and sometimes horizontally.<br>
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Aluscladiusmaximus <p></p><i></i>
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I read you post with great interest. As I havn't seen this tombstone I hadn't realised how worn it was. I have looked at all the pictures in the RomanArmy.com imagebase and there is only one figure who is wearing a helmet ( the soldier from Hungry) All the rest have bare heads(This doesn't include Calvary tombstones where the soldier is mounted). This makes it quite lightly that he isn't wearing a helmet either and the Bit sticking up is part of the fluting on the top of his niche. As to the axe? it could be a scroll. Some soldiers are shown holding a scroll sometimes vertically and sometimes horizontally.<br>
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Aluscladiusmaximus <p></p><i></i>
Bernard Jacobs
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Any opinion stated is genally not the opinion of My group or Centurian