08-30-2007, 07:00 PM
Just a thought, but I wonder if tribunes, especially, wore such heavily decorated musculata as are shown on sculptures. Yes, most of them could have afforded them but why expose such expensive items to the risks of combat. Would it not be more reasonable to think that they would have worn a cuirass that gave a more or less symbolic representation of the musculature and had a Medusa head on the chest for protection?
