01-25-2013, 04:47 AM
Quote:Three of us from Legio III Cyrenaica participated in a lecture by an archaeologist who had participated in digs at Masada. We provided examples (3 variations of armor and helmets) of the appearance of leginary soldiers of the roughly Flavian era). She was a leader of a dig concentrating on the two large half-legion camps. They were looking for Silva's headquarters, which they identified in one of the camps. She spoke about the layout of the tent rows with the stone rubble walls and benches presumed to be for the soldiers to sit/sleep on. It was all accompanied by a slide presentation. She included in the slides a section cut into the ramps showing its timber internal structure. It was all facinating for my two fellow legionaries who knew very little about Masada or the assault on it.Jodi Magness?