07-12-2010, 02:59 PM
Ave!
There doesn't seem to be any evidence of Roman boiled leather at all. And there is no point that I can see for making aristocratic armor like a muscled cuirass out of leather, when the whole idea was to shine like a god and look expensive. That means metal. I'm a lot more open to the concept of leather or rawhide armor than I used to be, but there's still zippo to suggest a leather musculata.
There are already several LONG threads on this topic, if you do some searching and digging.
Matthew
There doesn't seem to be any evidence of Roman boiled leather at all. And there is no point that I can see for making aristocratic armor like a muscled cuirass out of leather, when the whole idea was to shine like a god and look expensive. That means metal. I'm a lot more open to the concept of leather or rawhide armor than I used to be, but there's still zippo to suggest a leather musculata.
There are already several LONG threads on this topic, if you do some searching and digging.
Matthew
Matthew Amt (Quintus)
Legio XX, USA
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Legio XX, USA
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