06-22-2006, 07:51 PM
Owe, the image is from my friend Nikos Panos for a book about Casar in Gaul. It represents a Cretan of the Elite 10th Legion. We assumed that this archer contignent was better equiped than the others.
Ceasar gives descrption of them fighting against the Ariovist´s Germans and in Alesia hand to hand.
The labyrinth would be used for a unit raised in Knossos and Festos and the wild mountain goat for a unit raised in Eleytherna or Lyktos.
Can you please give me the reference of the "goat medallion"?
I belive that your interpretation with a rectangular breast plate with leather straps in "Etruskan style" is more correct for the majority of the units.
Hope I helped
Ceasar gives descrption of them fighting against the Ariovist´s Germans and in Alesia hand to hand.
The labyrinth would be used for a unit raised in Knossos and Festos and the wild mountain goat for a unit raised in Eleytherna or Lyktos.
Can you please give me the reference of the "goat medallion"?
I belive that your interpretation with a rectangular breast plate with leather straps in "Etruskan style" is more correct for the majority of the units.
Hope I helped
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