Re: [tied] Re: Trajan's column

george knysh wrote:

>
> *****GK: That's a good point. But was this local
> population allowed to keep its weapons and retain its
> social and political structures? I still feel that the
> logical interpretation of the last scene is that these
> Dacians are not giving up, and moving away from the
> advancing Romans.******

No. There have been a special law for Dacians ( Lactantius tell us
about). The so called "census traianus".
Trough this census, they have been forbiden to have weapons and to be
organisated or to have any political structures. this census came after
several uprisings after 106.

>
> *****GK: I still think this is strained. The defeated
> Dacians are allowed to keep their property and their
> weapons. There are better ways to depict the return to
> calm. That "look back" implies a sense of loss and
> danger. It still seems best viewed as the imposition
> of a new boundary, guarded by Roman arms.******
>>
>> Regards,
>> Marius Iacomi
>>

There is the arheologie here too which has something to say. The
cemetiries of the Dacians in the Dacia Felix are very poor comparate
with these of the Dacian living outside of Dacia Felix in the same
period of time. It is in a way a second evidence for this census
traianus .