Sarcina

Sarcina denotes the field pack a Roman legion or of the individual legionary.

If the Legionaries or Roman soldiers were on the march, or several days, led each his own March luggage. This consisted of a bunch of luggage ( sarcina ), which was fixed to a cross-shaped wooden hanger bar ( furca ) and carried over the shoulder. In portmanteau ( Mantica ) was a fur to sleep, a metal flask for about 1 liter ( ampulla ), a bronze bucket ( situla ) used to fetch water or as a cooking pot, a bronze saucepan ( patera ) as a multi- purpose dish for drinking or scooping, a leather bag ( pera ) for snacks and personal items (knives, spoons, wooden comb, belt, money and otherwise), a supplies network ( reticulum ) with food for a few days ( every soldier led his grain ration with them ) as well as in cooler regions of woolen stockings, and later short pants and a hooded cloak of wool ( paenula ). Overall, the field pack 18-20 Kilogramm weighed.