09-23-2010, 09:46 PM
Quote:Oh, hadn't heard of that one! For the Republic and early Empire, I don't think anyone has come up with ANY depictions of belt pouches at all, nor any references. There are a couple little pouches of various sorts, but no evidence that they were hung from the belt. Just wasn't a Roman fasion at that time, apparently! Toss it inside your tunic, or hand it to a slave.
Or tuck it into a ventralis! You could argue that the square shaped object which appears to be tucked into the waist-belt on early Rhineland sculptures is a purse of some kind. Off hand I think there is also a literary source to keeping valuables in the waist-band but I do not think the text is clear if they are just wrapped up in the fabric or kept in a separate purse tucked into the waist-band.
I illustrated one of the Dura characters in Roman Military Clothing 2 with a purse attached to the belt itself but obscured most of it because the source is vague as to the pouch and method of attachment.
Graham.
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"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
