Roman tourniquet?

[Martin Moser]

Ben, I couldn't agree more with what you say above. I only echoed the "official" status quo in the field of medical history as I know it - there is no known description of it in ancient sources apparently. Therefore I think it a bit bold on the museum's side to simply declare an artifact as a tourniquet without putting the thing into proper perspective. That's what I tried to amend by taking the role of the advocatus diaboli :-) )