leather cuirass

[Dan Howard]

The Sarmatians and many other cultures at the time wore hardened leather or rawhide armour - scale and lamellar. I'm even open to the idea that Romans wore this type of armour. But it would take more than Dura Europos to make a case. Every argument I have seen that tries and argues that other Roman typologies (segmentata, musculata, etc.) were made of leather seem pitifully desperate. Once you actually define what constitutes "armour", all of the so-called evidence evaporates.