05-10-2009, 03:13 PM
Not being a reeanactor, one of the things I learned at RAT was that the Roman soldiers were not uniformly dressed. Within the same unit, soldiers could be wearing a lorica segmentata and a lorica hamata. I have no reason not to believe those who explained it to me, but what its the evidence? Checking the reliefs of the Column of Trajan, I saw all soldiers wearing loricae segmentatae. The Column of Marcus Aurelius indeed shows two types of armor, but how do we know that these soldiers were of the same unit?
