11-16-2005, 11:30 AM
I sometimes see mention of how "this belt is in a private collection", and "that gladius has disappeared and is in a collection somewhere", or "they're gathering dust in a museum's archives waiting to be catalogued but that won't happen for a long time if ever..."
Does anyone have any idea how many Roman military pieces there are left 'unpublished' or kept exclusive? Obviously I don't imagine someone can say 21,146, but has anyone got even the roughest guess?
Is it a subject for a new topic, so that at least the phantom pieces reside as a collected list somewhere, and when someone hears or knows of something it can be added? Perhaps split into categories of 'known of but unseen', 'heard of', 'pending publication', 'disappeared', etc? Given the wealth of knowledge on this board there must be a sizeable collective list of known items.
The flip side is it is nice when an individual sets up webpages and altruistically shares their own collection, which seems to happen now and again, and is probably the result of the internet being an alternative to the expensive process of paper publishing and distribution.
Does anyone have any idea how many Roman military pieces there are left 'unpublished' or kept exclusive? Obviously I don't imagine someone can say 21,146, but has anyone got even the roughest guess?
Is it a subject for a new topic, so that at least the phantom pieces reside as a collected list somewhere, and when someone hears or knows of something it can be added? Perhaps split into categories of 'known of but unseen', 'heard of', 'pending publication', 'disappeared', etc? Given the wealth of knowledge on this board there must be a sizeable collective list of known items.
The flip side is it is nice when an individual sets up webpages and altruistically shares their own collection, which seems to happen now and again, and is probably the result of the internet being an alternative to the expensive process of paper publishing and distribution.
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