10-22-2007, 09:49 PM
Jef said:-
There is a damaged stel found at Chester, England, of a Sarmatian Roman Auxiliarymounted standard bearer/draconarius with what looks like a conical spangenhelm, cloak, short sword strapped to right leg and probably scale armour...the stele is too damaged to say much more, alas....as to horn or squamata, your guess is as good as anyone's.....
Quote:I'm still unsure what a Sarmatian fighting for Rome would wear armourwise. A horn cuirras? Chainmail? A metal squamata?
There is a damaged stel found at Chester, England, of a Sarmatian Roman Auxiliarymounted standard bearer/draconarius with what looks like a conical spangenhelm, cloak, short sword strapped to right leg and probably scale armour...the stele is too damaged to say much more, alas....as to horn or squamata, your guess is as good as anyone's.....
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
