05-24-2010, 07:37 AM
Who can think that a leather "cuirass" or armour can bend that way? It is impossible for me to think that something made to protect can be so soft. Leather/linen armours are hard, not soft. Of course leather/linen used not to protect, must be soft, but I don't think it is the case.
So, a subarmalis? Very strange, because of the appearing too similar to loricae, but possible.
An error of the artist? Well let's keep "this door" open. The error could be made by the artist simply "copying" other examples where in the same way is represented a subarmalis, but in this case the sculptor added the form of the lorica. Probably it thought that that shape would be more "realistic" (
).
So, a subarmalis? Very strange, because of the appearing too similar to loricae, but possible.
An error of the artist? Well let's keep "this door" open. The error could be made by the artist simply "copying" other examples where in the same way is represented a subarmalis, but in this case the sculptor added the form of the lorica. Probably it thought that that shape would be more "realistic" (
).
