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<p>[QUOTE="Kasia, post: 3409608, member: 31533"]This is interesting. I just was looking into what the tassels or tails were on the Roman coins I was looking at (City Commemoratives) and where Roma had on a crested helmet and the answer may be that 1) the crested helmets had horsehair as the crested part, and 2) the tassels/tails coming off there seem to also maybe be horsehair and represent actual hair for the person (virtual hair extensions) and represented manliness. This would fit in with the idea that the sidelocks were there in battle but not otherwise. Basicallly a battle decoration symbolizing maybe manliness and bravery and courage to face an enemy? Would love to hear any thoughts on this, and perhaps this was a longstanding 'tradition' that Constantine and other Roman era people continued. </p><p><br /></p><p>This (above) is just preliminary for me, I don't have much to back it up yet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Kasia, post: 3409608, member: 31533"]This is interesting. I just was looking into what the tassels or tails were on the Roman coins I was looking at (City Commemoratives) and where Roma had on a crested helmet and the answer may be that 1) the crested helmets had horsehair as the crested part, and 2) the tassels/tails coming off there seem to also maybe be horsehair and represent actual hair for the person (virtual hair extensions) and represented manliness. This would fit in with the idea that the sidelocks were there in battle but not otherwise. Basicallly a battle decoration symbolizing maybe manliness and bravery and courage to face an enemy? Would love to hear any thoughts on this, and perhaps this was a longstanding 'tradition' that Constantine and other Roman era people continued. This (above) is just preliminary for me, I don't have much to back it up yet.[/QUOTE]
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