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There are depictions of daggers and swords worn horizontally.....which loops were used for this I wonder?
Surely not only the upper 2?
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Where is that from Byron? If that's the case, the two rings that would take the "upper" position when the scabbard is horizontal would have to be used.
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Quote:Where is that from Byron? If that's the case, the two rings that would take the "upper" position when the scabbard is horizontal would have to be used.
I just came across it in the last week or 2...unfortunately I tend to flit from book to book, but possibly it is a relief in The Complete Roman Army'
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Quote:Quote:PS - love your shield pattern Jef. Cool
:lol: When I started my group, along with three friends we wanted to do Legio XXX. Robert Norton started us with that. But the time periode of this Legion was a bit too restricted for our wishes (we wanted to be able to do Caesarian and 1st century AD too.
Yeah, I recognized the wing pattern...I made it a loooong time ago. Nice paint job you did with it!
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Byron,
Are you thinking of the stele of the centurio Minucius, from Padova. He is depicted wearing his dagger horizontally at the front, although how it is attached is anyone's guess. As for swords, the aquilifer Gnaeus Musius appears to be wearing a sword in a more or less horizontal position. Again, there is no way of knowing but this may reflact the same type of suspension used with the Delos sword, which was deposited a hundred years or so before Gnaeus Musius' stele is likely to have been erected.
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I believe you are correct there, it was an aquilifer possibly!
So it just goes to show there were possibly a variety of methods used
at the same time, all through the Roman era!
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