09-01-2011, 01:25 AM
That's the same thread I linked above, Matt! Actually I think most of the depictions I mentioned there have been subsequently mentioned here already, except for the Danubian stelae, which are interesting even if they (probably) don't show officers as such.
Aelius Septimus, for example, from Brigetio:
[img size=380x448]http://www.romanarmy.com/cms/images/stories/imagebase/FirstnameAB/lg_Aeliusseptimus.jpg[/img]
The body armour here has been interpreted as mail, but this seems to me very late for such a 'fitted' style with shoulder doubling (the stone is undated afaik, but looks to be at least late 2nd century and probably mid 3rd). However, if this is indeed a musculata we have yet more evidence of something strange going on around the shoulder area - what looks like an additional piece capping the deltoid. That this resembles the integral 'T shirt' effect seen on the Honorius diptych and elsewhere is perhaps no coincidence...
Aelius Septimus, for example, from Brigetio:
[img size=380x448]http://www.romanarmy.com/cms/images/stories/imagebase/FirstnameAB/lg_Aeliusseptimus.jpg[/img]
The body armour here has been interpreted as mail, but this seems to me very late for such a 'fitted' style with shoulder doubling (the stone is undated afaik, but looks to be at least late 2nd century and probably mid 3rd). However, if this is indeed a musculata we have yet more evidence of something strange going on around the shoulder area - what looks like an additional piece capping the deltoid. That this resembles the integral 'T shirt' effect seen on the Honorius diptych and elsewhere is perhaps no coincidence...
Nathan Ross
