A River\'s Gifts

[Gaius Octavius Drusus]

Avete Fraterii:

I direct your attention to this month's issue of National Geographic. There is an article titled "A River's Gifts" in it, which details the discovery and recovery of aritfacts from the Ljubljanica River in Slovenia.
Specifically of interest to us is the magnificent gladius pictured on p. 150 of that article and the Minerva belt plate on p. 154.
Is there additonal information available on these items?

Vale:

Gaius Octavius Drusus

[Alexandr K]

Hi,
information about the gladius is in Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies:

Istenič, J.: A late-republican gladius from the River Ljubljanica (Slovenia), JRMES 11, 2000, p. 1-9.

See also
this page.

Greetings
Alexandr

[Uwe Bahr]

Avete omnes,

pictures have can be seen under this topic:

link from old RAT

[Alexandr K]

Huh, I didn't know there are more Roman swords from the river Ljubljanica... Bad reference then, sorry. :oops: