Armor of the Divine Triad : lamellar armor

[Robert Vermaat]

What I don't understand in this, is why bother to sculpt the helmet, the greaves, the shield, the belt and gladius, and not the armour? The subarmalis seems to me a minor piece of the equipment.
Ancients had different mentalities, but in this, they would represent what would be seen by all, not a subarmalis.

A valid argument, and I can't say anything against the logic of it.

So we're faced with two possibilities for the Roman military:

- sometimes a padded garment was used as armour
or
- there was a lamellar-type armour in use that we never found traces of.