(02-06-2022, 04:36 AM)Reznikov12 Wrote: While the translation from Latin means satchel, this section from a journal shows how this item is actually some kind of a water bag.
https://www.academia.edu/7342731/The_wat...n_soldiers
The problem is that all other depictions from various sites show this as a satchel or bag so what is the consensus on this site?
Well if you look at the archaeology there are in fact (including art images) three bags:
1. The "Loculus" from Barhill, about the size of an average shopping bag, though the handle is entirely speculative it was clearly a folded piece of tanned leather laced up the sides with an open top.
2. The various remains of water bags from middle eastern sites (three of these sites seem to have common features, some of which which could be interpreted as the "Volken water bag" and are made from untanned skin* (*Van Driel Murray).
3. And the image from Trajans Column which clearly shows a whole "water skin" and a "water bag".
The main feature of the three sites mentioned is that the water bags are made from multiple parts laced together with some reinforcing involved, ie transverse strips, in this respect they are identical.
What would perhaps seem odd is that the Legionaires are carrying such a large quantity of liquid perhaps more appropriate to the Middle East then Dacia...
Some thoughts not written in stone...
