09-24-2011, 01:30 AM
My question is this, how many of the various types (Mainz, Fulham, Pompeii) of gladius are in museums etc.
I'm just trying to get a handle on the relative sample size out there, so when types of gladius--I'll leave the number of calvery spatha and the ever-elusive semispatha for someone else to ask about--are discussed and their relative features, we can say that of the X number known of (fill in the blank) type, this many have these features in common.
I've seen people on this board discussing helmets and armor in this fashion, why not swords, since there are probably more of them out there.
And no, I really don't want an individual breakdown of how many of this or that type are at each individual museum, but just a general number, so we don't go making gross over-generalizations such as "they are all like that!" about something when only a handful are known to exist in the world.
I'm just trying to get a handle on the relative sample size out there, so when types of gladius--I'll leave the number of calvery spatha and the ever-elusive semispatha for someone else to ask about--are discussed and their relative features, we can say that of the X number known of (fill in the blank) type, this many have these features in common.
I've seen people on this board discussing helmets and armor in this fashion, why not swords, since there are probably more of them out there.
And no, I really don't want an individual breakdown of how many of this or that type are at each individual museum, but just a general number, so we don't go making gross over-generalizations such as "they are all like that!" about something when only a handful are known to exist in the world.
David Cooper
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