Dacian/Getae

There are two main visual sources for the Dacian clothing and equipment, the Trajan's Column and the monument Tropaeum Traiani (Romania).



For the Tropaeum Traiani see these images of its metopes (this and next pages):
Google Adamclisi metopes



For the Trajan's Column you can do the same thing:
Google Trajan's Column


Or explore a systematic site about the Column:
http://www.stoa.org/trajan/buildtrajanpage.cgi?136


or a partial presentation:
National History Museum Romania


Page with illustrations from a :

Nationalist website


The Getae were the name given by Greeks to the Dacians, especially in the centuries before the Roman conquest and from the areas of Southern and Eastern today Romania. In the period of Dacian Kindom there were not significant differences between the maaterial culture of Dacians in different parts of the Kingdom. If you want to know how the Dacians in Southern and Eastern Romania before the kingdom (in the Latene period, 5-1st centuries BCE), when they were being called Getae, there are not visual sources for this with the exception of some works of gold and silver Dacian/Getae Treasures:

Poroina Riton

Cotofenesti Helmet

Edited by Menumorut - 07-Dec-2009 at 08:09

The page with all the metopes from Tropaeum:

Wikimedia Commons - Adamclisi

Edited by Menumorut - 07-Dec-2009 at 08:39

Has anyone considered the word Dacii, or Daci(a), to be related to
Deci(a)?

http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Decia

http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/rsc/decia/i.html

Could they have been a confederation of ten tribes?

Even the Spanish word?;
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/CliffsReviewTopic/The-Verb-Decir.topicArticleId-23932,articleId-23830.html

Say what? Laugh!

Regards,

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