01-07-2007, 09:34 PM
Ah, a topic close to my heart 
I can certainly recommend a plait for keeping fine curly long hair out of the way and avoiding tearing it out with your mail (one more reason to move up from butted!).
I'm working on a swabian knot for next season. 8)
The possibly C3rd bronze roundel in Southern & Dixon p125 shows Legio XX and II legionaries looking very shaggy.
I swear one of the chaps on the Arch of Constantine has a pony tail below his Pannonian cap.
From coin evidence Constantine started off with a beard, but short hair, Constantine II had collar length wavy locks, Julian II (the Apostate) sported a pagan beard & sometimes a few escaping locks in the 360s.
The average western legionary of the C4th might have had more of the barbarian look to him, than imperial. For example, the half-Vandal Stilicho seems rather resplendant in a beard but I don't know a profile.
In Simon MacDowall's 'Adrianople A.D. 378' he shows the base of the Obelisk of Theodosius I in Istanbul and describes long haired Gothic recruits contrasting with short haired 'Roman' soldiers.
The C4th Cologne beaker shows not quite collar length hair. The Justinian mosaic guards have what might possibly be described as mullets :lol:
The C5th ivory from Villa Sforza, Milan, shows long haired soldiers in Pannonian caps.
There is a nice long haired, bearded cavalryman portrayed in a C6th mosaic from Carthage, often appearing in Late Roman books, perhaps an Alan. Similar figures in 'elephant feet' trousers, possibly Germanic troops, are carved in the Cathedra of Maximianus.
I can certainly recommend a plait for keeping fine curly long hair out of the way and avoiding tearing it out with your mail (one more reason to move up from butted!).
I'm working on a swabian knot for next season. 8)
The possibly C3rd bronze roundel in Southern & Dixon p125 shows Legio XX and II legionaries looking very shaggy.
I swear one of the chaps on the Arch of Constantine has a pony tail below his Pannonian cap.
From coin evidence Constantine started off with a beard, but short hair, Constantine II had collar length wavy locks, Julian II (the Apostate) sported a pagan beard & sometimes a few escaping locks in the 360s.
The average western legionary of the C4th might have had more of the barbarian look to him, than imperial. For example, the half-Vandal Stilicho seems rather resplendant in a beard but I don't know a profile.
In Simon MacDowall's 'Adrianople A.D. 378' he shows the base of the Obelisk of Theodosius I in Istanbul and describes long haired Gothic recruits contrasting with short haired 'Roman' soldiers.
The C4th Cologne beaker shows not quite collar length hair. The Justinian mosaic guards have what might possibly be described as mullets :lol:
The C5th ivory from Villa Sforza, Milan, shows long haired soldiers in Pannonian caps.
There is a nice long haired, bearded cavalryman portrayed in a C6th mosaic from Carthage, often appearing in Late Roman books, perhaps an Alan. Similar figures in 'elephant feet' trousers, possibly Germanic troops, are carved in the Cathedra of Maximianus.
Salvianus: Ste Kenwright
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My Re-enactment Journal
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