02-11-2005, 07:45 PM
Avete, amici!<br>
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Dr. Raffaele D'Amato, who, I believe is a friend of Graham Sumner's, asserted a while back that all or part of a bronze lorica segmenta was found in excavations at Nova, Bulgaria. This was supposedly published in the Bulgarian archaeological journal for 1999. I recently was able to look at a copy of this publication and found no reference to any bronze loricae (at least no images or drawings of anything that looked like one, and my Bulgarian friend could find no reference in the text to it). Do I have the wrong edition, or is it some other publication I am trying to locate?<br>
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Also, I would have thought Mike Bishop would have heard about or referred to such a find in his "Lorica Segmentata" volumes, which went to press at least a year after these supposed finds were published. Mike, if you're out there, have you heard about any bronze loricae being found in Bulgaria or elsewhere?<br>
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I would have thought that such a find (bronze, after all, is likely to survive in much better condition than any iron object) would have created quite a ripple through the Roman armor / archaeology fraternity, which, after all, got very excited about the Kalkriese breastplate! But I've only seen a few rather cryptic mentions and heard a couple of rumors (i.e. that the lorica was "virtually complete and in spectacular condition"). Is this find real, and if so, why haven't we heard more about it?<br>
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Dave Michaels / T. Flavius Crispus<br>
Leg VI VPF<br>
CA, USA<br>
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Dr. Raffaele D'Amato, who, I believe is a friend of Graham Sumner's, asserted a while back that all or part of a bronze lorica segmenta was found in excavations at Nova, Bulgaria. This was supposedly published in the Bulgarian archaeological journal for 1999. I recently was able to look at a copy of this publication and found no reference to any bronze loricae (at least no images or drawings of anything that looked like one, and my Bulgarian friend could find no reference in the text to it). Do I have the wrong edition, or is it some other publication I am trying to locate?<br>
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Also, I would have thought Mike Bishop would have heard about or referred to such a find in his "Lorica Segmentata" volumes, which went to press at least a year after these supposed finds were published. Mike, if you're out there, have you heard about any bronze loricae being found in Bulgaria or elsewhere?<br>
<br>
I would have thought that such a find (bronze, after all, is likely to survive in much better condition than any iron object) would have created quite a ripple through the Roman armor / archaeology fraternity, which, after all, got very excited about the Kalkriese breastplate! But I've only seen a few rather cryptic mentions and heard a couple of rumors (i.e. that the lorica was "virtually complete and in spectacular condition"). Is this find real, and if so, why haven't we heard more about it?<br>
<br>
Dave Michaels / T. Flavius Crispus<br>
Leg VI VPF<br>
CA, USA<br>
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T. Flavius Crispus / David S. Michaels
Centurio Pilus Prior,
Legio VI VPF
CA, USA
"Oderint dum probent."
Tiberius
Centurio Pilus Prior,
Legio VI VPF
CA, USA
"Oderint dum probent."
Tiberius
