A theory I have on the Segmentata\'s use...

[Tarbicus]

Art historians and military historians rarely see eye to eye on these things. Military historians think Art historians are ignorant on all military matters, and art historians think military historians are delusional and basically see what they want to see when they look at the art.

It's a shame they don't take the attitude of the Roman military, who it would seem were avid patrons of the arts in the provinces, limited only by the skillsets of the locals, according to Artistic patronage and the Roman military community in Britain, by Martin Henig.

Architecturally, the Adamklissi Monument is superior to Trajan's Column, but not sculpturally. However, it may be that it wasn't so much only a case of the Dacian sculptors saw more soldiers than the Roman sculptors, but also that the Adamklissi sculptors had actual miltary men guiding them on the content, although their figurative skills were inferior to those employed in Rome who may well have had limited military advice on the content, but had better sculptors. If only they had swapped :wink: