File:Grabstein Bogenschütze Housesteads.png

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English: Second century tombstone of a soldier from Cohors I Hamiorum Sagittariorum, a regiment of bowmen from Syria. Found in Housesteads/Vercovicium (Hadrians Wall). The tombstone is uninscribed, the relief shows an archer, lightly armoured in a short tunic with a peculiarly pointed helmet upon his head and a military cloak about his shoulders, the man is depicted armed with a curved short bow held by his left side, a dagger on his belt and a hatchet grasped in his right hand; the soldier also appears to have a quiver of arrows suspended from a baldric at his right shoulder.
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Source John Collingwood Bruce: The Roman Wall: A Description of the Mural Barrier of the North of England. 3. Ausgabe, Longman, Green, Reader and Dyer, London, Andrew Reid, Newcastle u.T., 1867, S. 197.
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