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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
> *****GK: The Carpi fit this scenario of course. But in this
> connection I'd like to verify something else. I remember reading
> somewhere (perhaps on this very list but the who or when escapes
> me), that there is a depiction on Trajan's Dacian War column of
> some mass out-migration by Free Dacians at the conclusion of the
> war. Northward and northeastward I believe. Is this so?****
In fact, the scenes CLIV/CLV depict soemthing like this: some
Roman soldiers walk from the left (where they are) to the right.
Behind them there is a Dacian city which burned out. In front of
them, there are a group of Dacians (wonem, children, men) and a
bunch of farm animals. A part of the Dacians look back, others
bear some weapons.
Now, in interpretation of these two scenes, Reinach, Cichorius
and Froehner proposed more than 100 years ago the idea that Dacians
are chased by Romans out of occupied territory. Patsch argues that
it's about the refugees in the mountains who return to their own
villages after the war; Daicoviciu says they are evacuated from
mountains where they could have organized further resistence in
front of the Romans and brought in plain, where they could have
been better kept under Big Brother's eye.
From my point of view, the scenes are not conclusive at all, be
it for one or for another interpretation. There is no way to tell
out clearly where the guys are coming from and where exactly they
are going. Too many "if"s.
Regards,
Marius Iacomi