Holiday Sculpture
I've taken this picture during my holiday in Spain.
As my knowledge of ancient weaponry is boosted by EB, I guess those weapons are thracian/getic (falx, rhomphaia), composite bows are sarmatian, shields are celtic and the helmets are thracian/greek. The thing I don't know is why the Romans created such sculpture. Maybe it should portray the weapons of defeated enemies or the weapons of thracian mercenaries.
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that would be sick on my wall!
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some butcher-brained general trying to pull off the equivalent of lots of stuffed animals' heads on his walls, perhaps? Looks a bit too cluttered for my liking, but I've come to the same conclusion as you. The sword in the lower left looks Celtic, too.
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Roman swag...
quae res et cibi genere et cotidiana exercitatione et libertate vitae
Herein events and rations daily birth the labors of freedom.
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I saw a life size plaster cast of Trajan's column in the V&A museum not so long ago - now that was amazing
Look what these bastards have done to Wales. They've taken our coal, our water, our steel. They buy our homes and live in them for a fortnight every year. What have they given us? Absolutely nothing. We've been exploited, raped, controlled and punished by the English — and that's who you are playing this afternoon Phil Bennett's pre 1977 Rugby match speech
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