03-02-2016, 10:28 PM
It is logical that there was legionnaire which have money ,no matter if it gained from gambling or looted trophy (salaries of the legionnaires were small for such luxury 
to order to a local craftsman who works in the nearest town or to the blacksmith workshop from outside of the castrum to improve its basic legionnaires equipment.No matter if it's helmet ,gladius or pugio.
Very similar model showing the helmet in the early stage of its transformation.
Good occasion is with this publication of this helmet to celebrate 2010 years anniversary of Illyrian Revolt .Erupted on 6 AD by which this helmet are connected.Often the well decorated and silver plated helmets used in reenactment are transcribed as a parade one. But in this model things are in different way .This is a helmet that has been repeatedly used by perhaps a few field centurions and was most likely lost during military actions in forcing the Kupa river in the time of the Pannonian uprising war.
“Despite being numerous,
the finds from Sisak are perhaps the least likely to
be connected with any certainty to the Pannonian
revolt from 6 to 9 AD. It is not due to chronological
issues because we believe that all of them might
have been in use during the Pannonian
revolt. It
should also be pointed out that we did not mention
many finds from Siscia whose dating is more uncertain
or very broad, like spears, javelins, arrows, lead
shots, fragments of chain and scale armour, harness
equipment pieces, etc., although
they could have
been used during the Pannonian
war as well. The
problem with finds from Siscia, or we should better
say the difficulty of connecting
finds from Siscia to
the Pannonian revolt lies in the fact that this place
was an important military garrison from 35 BC till
at least 43 AD when the 9th legion left for Britain. “
citation (Archaeological Museum,
zagreb; photo courtesy
Prof Radman-Livaja)
to order to a local craftsman who works in the nearest town or to the blacksmith workshop from outside of the castrum to improve its basic legionnaires equipment.No matter if it's helmet ,gladius or pugio. Very similar model showing the helmet in the early stage of its transformation.
Good occasion is with this publication of this helmet to celebrate 2010 years anniversary of Illyrian Revolt .Erupted on 6 AD by which this helmet are connected.Often the well decorated and silver plated helmets used in reenactment are transcribed as a parade one. But in this model things are in different way .This is a helmet that has been repeatedly used by perhaps a few field centurions and was most likely lost during military actions in forcing the Kupa river in the time of the Pannonian uprising war.
“Despite being numerous,
the finds from Sisak are perhaps the least likely to
be connected with any certainty to the Pannonian
revolt from 6 to 9 AD. It is not due to chronological
issues because we believe that all of them might
have been in use during the Pannonian
revolt. It
should also be pointed out that we did not mention
many finds from Siscia whose dating is more uncertain
or very broad, like spears, javelins, arrows, lead
shots, fragments of chain and scale armour, harness
equipment pieces, etc., although
they could have
been used during the Pannonian
war as well. The
problem with finds from Siscia, or we should better
say the difficulty of connecting
finds from Siscia to
the Pannonian revolt lies in the fact that this place
was an important military garrison from 35 BC till
at least 43 AD when the 9th legion left for Britain. “
citation (Archaeological Museum,
zagreb; photo courtesy
Prof Radman-Livaja)
