Couple of Queries

[Matthew Amt]

Ave!<br>
Good place to start for clothing and equipment of the Jews in the revolt is Peter Connolly's "The Holy Land". I hope that's the current title--it seems to have gone through several. My copy is called "Living in the Time of Jesus of Nazareth". Anyway, it's listed on the Legio XX Bibliography page,<br>
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www.larp.com/legioxx/bibliog.html<br>
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The Jews wore their everyday clothing, which was pretty much Romanized: baggy square tunic with clavi (2 vertical stripes), sandals, and a rectangular cloak which had L-shaped markings at the corners, and purple tassles at each corner. They probably had very little armor, mostly captured Roman stuff. We know they were stocking up on weaponry, including weapons which had been produced for the Roman army but deliberately made as "rejects", which they would then keep and squirrel away rather than destroy or recycle. It seems they used a lot of bows and javelins, which make sense when you don't really want to get into close combat with legionaries.<br>
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That help? Good luck and Vale,<br>
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Matthew/Quintus, Leg.XX <p></p><i></i>