03-01-2013, 09:01 PM
By end for the First Century AD the Roman Empire stretched from England to Egypt, Spain to Turkey. It encompassed millions of people, dozens of cultures and ethnicities. Merchants and travelers from all over the empire traveled to Rome, peregrini auxiliaries served in the army and very well sported pants, and you honestly believed no one wore pants until Trajan's monuments said it was okay?
It's funny how when we find a helmet dated from 69 AD we say it is acceptable from 50-120 AD, but when we find pants, well there's no way they could have been used a decade sooner?
By your logic, everyone portraying a first century legionary should toss aside their 40" x 33" scutums, as they are based off of the Dura Europas find 100+ years later. We have not found a first century AD scutum, and in Trajan's column, scutums are much smaller than most reenactors have. We have no evidence for our large scutum yet we all march along with them.
It's funny how when we find a helmet dated from 69 AD we say it is acceptable from 50-120 AD, but when we find pants, well there's no way they could have been used a decade sooner?
By your logic, everyone portraying a first century legionary should toss aside their 40" x 33" scutums, as they are based off of the Dura Europas find 100+ years later. We have not found a first century AD scutum, and in Trajan's column, scutums are much smaller than most reenactors have. We have no evidence for our large scutum yet we all march along with them.
Quintus Furius Collatinus
-Matt
-Matt
