02-10-2013, 08:54 PM
Very nice impression Jori. I particularly like your sword - who made it? Your baldric should pass over, rather than under your belt, by the way.
My only other area of criticism would be the trousers. If you are doing an impression of a soldier of the Dacian Wars or later, trousers are fine, as there is evidence for their use by citizen solders from one of the Adamklissi metopes, dating to Trajan's Dacian campaigns in the early second century AD. Evidence for their use before this is entirely lacking though and as your overall impression looks more like the mid-1st century AD (judging by your belt) I would avoid them on the basis that although they were certainly in use by some soldiers fifty or so years later, we do not know how long before that they entered service and so it is possible that trousers (of any type) may be utterly wrong for a soldier of your period. A lot can change in fifty or sixty years after all.
Crispvs
My only other area of criticism would be the trousers. If you are doing an impression of a soldier of the Dacian Wars or later, trousers are fine, as there is evidence for their use by citizen solders from one of the Adamklissi metopes, dating to Trajan's Dacian campaigns in the early second century AD. Evidence for their use before this is entirely lacking though and as your overall impression looks more like the mid-1st century AD (judging by your belt) I would avoid them on the basis that although they were certainly in use by some soldiers fifty or so years later, we do not know how long before that they entered service and so it is possible that trousers (of any type) may be utterly wrong for a soldier of your period. A lot can change in fifty or sixty years after all.
Crispvs
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