03-05-2005, 08:57 PM
As I said I'll provide better photos soon. Yes the scabbard is attached to the belt, as stripe shows. No evidence for existence of the baldrick. There were no finds in the sarcophagus, but in the chamber we found Arcadius coin, some fragments of IV century lamps. I measured the possible lenght of the sword and if I'm right it couldn't exceed 70cm. So shall we call it gladius? About my initial problem, I have seen different strap ends in the form of circle, but all of them are decorated in some way. This one is absollutely flat, undecorated, except the perls on the edge. Such perledged strap ends have been found in Pannonia but all of them are square, and decorated again. As I said thanks to you all.<br>
About the second topic.<br>
This knowledge of past times that we can speek of in the beggining of the 21. century didn't come from itself. It emmerged from the hard labor and development of different sciences of which is the archeology a distinctive part. Archeology is not the science but methodological approach, with basic idea of reconsidering the past by material evidence positioned in the space and by that means - in the time. From the method of comparing the analogical material we came to deeper conclusions so in the present times we can say that roman life perhaps is not unknown to us. And that is because of millions of things found in the archeological context. Compare it to the forensic, criminological analysis.<br>
One example.<br>
In the sixties a temple of Iupiter Dolichenus was found. In the part of it a handle for icon of Iupiter Dolichenus. In the late seventies my father purchased for his museum a guilded icon of Iupiter Dolichenus. As a matter of fact the guy who sold it is from the same place where the handle was found. And for the sake of the story, they match. But, we will never know where it stood.<br>
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As Aitor said it is not the matter of weekend plunderers, it is part of the organized crime. Same people, deeling with drugs, child abuse, prostitution, weapons, and so one, sell through their same conections, antiques on the west. And I agree that we have to work with detectorists, they are the first hand in the chain, and sometimes they are willing to show us what they found. It depends if we speak about Sirmium, Singidunum, Viminacium, eastern Serbia, Kosovo. Different situations. <p></p><i></i>
About the second topic.<br>
This knowledge of past times that we can speek of in the beggining of the 21. century didn't come from itself. It emmerged from the hard labor and development of different sciences of which is the archeology a distinctive part. Archeology is not the science but methodological approach, with basic idea of reconsidering the past by material evidence positioned in the space and by that means - in the time. From the method of comparing the analogical material we came to deeper conclusions so in the present times we can say that roman life perhaps is not unknown to us. And that is because of millions of things found in the archeological context. Compare it to the forensic, criminological analysis.<br>
One example.<br>
In the sixties a temple of Iupiter Dolichenus was found. In the part of it a handle for icon of Iupiter Dolichenus. In the late seventies my father purchased for his museum a guilded icon of Iupiter Dolichenus. As a matter of fact the guy who sold it is from the same place where the handle was found. And for the sake of the story, they match. But, we will never know where it stood.<br>
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As Aitor said it is not the matter of weekend plunderers, it is part of the organized crime. Same people, deeling with drugs, child abuse, prostitution, weapons, and so one, sell through their same conections, antiques on the west. And I agree that we have to work with detectorists, they are the first hand in the chain, and sometimes they are willing to show us what they found. It depends if we speak about Sirmium, Singidunum, Viminacium, eastern Serbia, Kosovo. Different situations. <p></p><i></i>
