Did only Centurions wear medals?

[jvrjenivs]

Jurjen, what was the source for your coloured pteryges? Do you have any first century AD examples?

Unfortunatelly, none. I made it based on my impression that pteryges could be also made of linen, not only leather. (compared with Linothorax, etc). Next based on the fact the Romans loved colours I wanted to do something with colours that should be 'dangerous' on first sight. Now, the next step in the design was some artwork in AW (yeah, how wrong can you be as to choose your source for such a thing) Igor Dzis, AW VOL III, issue 4. I like this combination of colours.

So, I think this doesn't help you much, but I'm quite interested in your opinion about the piece. I'm personally very pleased with the looks.