The "Myth" of the "Dacian Falx" as a super weapon

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For those who are not familiar with the Adamklissi metopes , here are some examples - note that none wear "Dacian dress" - tight trousers, knee-length tunic, belted, and phrygian caps for chiefs - see left hand figure from earlier post....but compare them to the middle figure....

Well, no one wear the Bastarnae dress either. Look again at your first image (with the "germanic knot" visible on hair of Bastarnae, and all 3 full dressed)


Then look at this (same "knot" on hair in lateral of the head is visible on the fallen warrior, but clearly the one who stand have a long shirt/tunic up to the knees, similar with Dacian ones, and nothing like the Bastarnae from your first image)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... tope36.jpg
You can see other Bastarnae here, and diference in dress is even more visible ("germanic knot" on head, short shirt)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... tope23.jpg

Then at this

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... tope34.jpg

And this (a dacian dressed, with a shield and a similar cap (so called "phrygian cap") as the ones from the previous picture)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... tope35.jpg

And this (as you can see, thight trousers, even if i have no idea how you reach the conclusion who's who looking at their trousers, from the first image isnt clear, and no "germanic knot")

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... tope32.jpg


Diferent trousers (which according to you make the distinction), some with bare head, some with a cap (phrygian cap), some having the "germanic knot", some doesnt. How on Earth you can say that all are Bastarnae? The diferences as clearly visible, not just betwen your first image (with Dacians, Sarmatians and Bastarnae full dressed), but even betwen bare chest fighters