Toto

That ten legion site looks like it's aimed at people who want something more colorful than civil war reenactment but more manly than the Renaissance Faire.

For the about page:

stephan huller

DCH

I guess the question is how different do you imagine a tenth legion standard would look from a stick with a flag with an X on it. I doubt there was much originality.

stephan huller

The tenth legion was at Carrhae at the beginning of the Common Era:

http://books.google.com/books?id=8kL...ion%22&f=false

That's pretty solid circumstantial evidence don't you think?

stephan huller

No one knows when the Legio X was first organized

I think the point is that the legion was organized c. 41 BCE. They apparently had winter residence at Carrhae. I don't see the difficulty in accepting a coin from 19 BCE from Carrhae with their insignia on it

stephan huller

Another interesting X coin associated with the legion

stephan huller

Is it an eagle or is it a cross? More coins from Parthia:

stephan huller

Another image of the legio x ensign

stephan huller

Another image:

stephan huller

Has it been said often enough that a cross shaped like a tau isn't chiasmic (i.e. it is not a 'cross' or 'cross-shaped'):



Just because our surviving copies of Barnabas say that the cross looked like a tau, Clement's text of the same letter did not. Besides which it is contradicted by ALL the early witnesses who say the cross was a chiasma. I think the original text of Barnabas somehow 'knew' that the tau went back to a Semitic letter that was cross-shaped (or liked like an X). But how do you prove that?

tanya

The Phoenician Alphabet, letter tau seems to be a rather good starting point.