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Optio staff
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I'm not sure we can conclude that, Piotr. Most of the depictions of the optio show a round ball on the end of his hastile. What they don't show is what material from which the ball was made. My vote would be for carved wood, perhaps painted, but that's just opinion without evidence.
M. Demetrius Abicio
(David Wills)

Saepe veritas est dura.
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Optio staff - by SOCL - 10-04-2007, 01:10 PM
Re: Optio staff - by Tib. Gabinius - 10-04-2007, 01:24 PM
Re: Optio staff - by Matthew Amt - 10-04-2007, 03:53 PM
Re: Optio staff - by SOCL - 10-04-2007, 04:05 PM
Re: Optio staff - by D B Campbell - 10-04-2007, 04:05 PM
Re: Optio staff - by SOCL - 10-04-2007, 04:06 PM
Re: Optio staff - by Tib. Gabinius - 10-04-2007, 04:34 PM
Re: Optio staff - by Peroni - 10-05-2007, 06:49 PM
Re: Optio staff - by A_Volpe - 10-05-2007, 10:16 PM
Re: Optio staff - by FAVENTIANVS - 10-06-2007, 12:45 AM
Re: Optio staff - by M. Demetrius - 10-06-2007, 01:45 AM
Material & length - by Falcon - 10-06-2007, 08:47 AM
Re: Optio staff - by SOCL - 10-07-2007, 02:41 PM
Re: Optio staff - by M. Demetrius - 10-07-2007, 03:39 PM
Re: Optio staff - by SOCL - 10-08-2007, 01:42 AM
Re: Optio staff - by M. Demetrius - 10-08-2007, 01:46 PM
Re: Optio staff - by Susanna - 10-08-2007, 02:15 PM
Re: Optio staff - by jbd_29349 - 10-08-2007, 05:42 PM
Could you send it to me as well? - by zugislander - 10-08-2007, 07:04 PM
Re: Optio staff - by SOCL - 10-08-2007, 07:17 PM
Re: Optio staff - by jbd_29349 - 10-09-2007, 01:57 AM
Re: Optio staff - by M. Demetrius - 10-09-2007, 02:21 AM
Re: Optio staff - by LUCIUS ALFENUS AVITIANUS - 10-09-2007, 06:48 AM
Re: Optio staff - by Peroni - 10-09-2007, 09:42 AM
Re: Optio staff - by D B Campbell - 10-09-2007, 01:09 PM
Re: Optio staff - by jbd_29349 - 10-09-2007, 01:13 PM
Re: Optio staff - by Luca - 01-23-2012, 08:49 PM
Re: Optio staff - by Piotr Smolanski - 04-04-2013, 07:45 PM
Re: Optio staff - by Gaius Julius Caesar - 04-04-2013, 08:15 PM
Re: Optio staff - by Piotr Smolanski - 04-05-2013, 01:24 PM
Re: Optio staff - by M. Demetrius - 04-05-2013, 05:58 PM
Re: Optio staff - by Gaius Julius Caesar - 04-05-2013, 08:11 PM
Re: Optio staff - by M. Demetrius - 04-06-2013, 05:49 AM
Re: Optio staff - by Gaius Julius Caesar - 04-06-2013, 01:40 PM
Re: Optio staff - by M. Demetrius - 04-06-2013, 07:53 PM

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