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Female Lorica Musculata - Sulla - 03-28-2007
First of all I think I had mentioned this before but I cant find the thread for the life of me. So incase I am wrong and it was not a thread I am starting a new one. I just noticed something I had not before on one of the images I collected. .....>
![[Image: loricataagoradet4a__B.jpg]](http://www.pwlawrence.com/temp_art/loricataagoradet4a__B.jpg)
That to me looks like a breast. Unless they had some very odd ides of male anatomry. And it seems to have all of the same parts of a musculata. The shoulder straps, belt around the middle tied the same way. The pteruge around the shoulder and at the bottom. Looks like it also has the cape fastend on the one shoulder and hanging down the back. Any way I just noticed it when doing research on the pteruges I am planning.
Re: Female Lorica Musculata - Tarbicus - 03-28-2007
It's been discussed before, here:
http://www.romanarmy.com/rat/viewtopic.php?t=6051
Re: Female Lorica Musculata - Chuck Russell - 03-28-2007
thems man boobs. that guy needs to wear the Bro or manzeer
Re: Female Lorica Musculata - Gaius Julius Caesar - 03-28-2007
Maybe he was on hormone therapy?
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Re: Female Lorica Musculata - Sulla - 03-28-2007
Sorry about that I thought we had talked about it before but just could not find the thread. Thats what I get for posting when I am really sleepy. And of course that same image was referenced in it I had just forgotten.
Re: Female Lorica Musculata - Steve Lenz - 03-28-2007
Note the size of his arm - that was an ancient bodybuilder! I don´t think that ist a "female" statue... 8)
Re: Female Lorica Musculata - Lusitano - 03-28-2007
Possibly just a statue of a roman goddess.
Re: Female Lorica Musculata - Sulla - 03-28-2007
The problem is you are thinking in modern terms of women. Very skinny thin women. That was not the ideal in the past. [url:2rb90a79]http://static.flickr.com/34/122957861_91e2847fb2.jpg[/url]
Re: Female Lorica Musculata - Steve Lenz - 03-28-2007
I know the ancient ideal, sulla - and your pic shows a "female" statue with "big arms". But on this statue with musculata i see an big arm with big triceps (note the broken area and the profile of the arm).
Re: Female Lorica Musculata - Sulla - 03-28-2007
It shows an arm about the same size as the one in the link I posted
Re: Female Lorica Musculata - Steve Lenz - 03-28-2007
Do you have the exact measures?:-) (Why i dont see long hairs on the musculata-shoulders?)
Re: Female Lorica Musculata - Sulla - 03-28-2007
Since I am a full time illustrator and artist getting proportions correct all day every day is what I do
And as for the hair look at the example link I posted. No hairs on the back of shoulder.
Re: Female Lorica Musculata - Steve Lenz - 03-28-2007
Ok point for you, and i am former personal trainer for natural bodybuilding & martial arts.
A armoured girl with high hairdressing??? :lol: Sorry, but i hold my position.
Re: Female Lorica Musculata - Tarbicus - 03-28-2007
Quote:A armoured girl with high hairdressing??? :lol: Sorry, but i hold my position.Why not? It's a million times more likely than a Roman man deliberately having a musculata made that shows off his fine pair of breasts.
Minerva's my guess, in contemporary officer's panoply.
![[Image: bueste_g.jpg]](http://www.baselland.ch/docs/kultur/augustaraurica/expo/bueste_g.jpg)
Re: Female Lorica Musculata - Historicula - 03-28-2007
Quick query: Do we have a time period and/or location for the Musculata shown above? That could be an important deciding factor.