10-29-2007, 09:12 AM
Virilis,
I haven't gotten around to reading Eusebius 'Life' yet, but ,so far, I think the best the evidence for continued use of lorica musculata in Late Antiquity is the 'Seasons' mosaic which is dated to the sixth century and located in the Argos Museum.
To me it can't be dismissed as a typical classicizing art motif. It clearly shows a man wearing a Spangenhelm with chainmail neck protection, an iron musculata, a leather harness running horizontally across the chest (as seen in other art from the period), and what appears to be a cotton and silk garment laying over the waist pteruges - Graham Sumner identifies this as a peristithidion in his 'Roman Military History (3).'
![[Image: march_april.jpg]](http://www.sikyon.com/Argos/Art/march_april.jpg)
~Theo
I haven't gotten around to reading Eusebius 'Life' yet, but ,so far, I think the best the evidence for continued use of lorica musculata in Late Antiquity is the 'Seasons' mosaic which is dated to the sixth century and located in the Argos Museum.
To me it can't be dismissed as a typical classicizing art motif. It clearly shows a man wearing a Spangenhelm with chainmail neck protection, an iron musculata, a leather harness running horizontally across the chest (as seen in other art from the period), and what appears to be a cotton and silk garment laying over the waist pteruges - Graham Sumner identifies this as a peristithidion in his 'Roman Military History (3).'
~Theo
Jaime
