Scale (repoussé) Pectorale

[john roberts]

This is getting away from the subject, but in the past we've discussed upward-overlapping segments on manicae as making more sense than the downward-overlapping segments of a lorica segmentata, especially in a gladiatorial context where the only weapon to be concerned with is a gladius coming straight at you from in front. The same would be true for scales. Incidentally, though it's from a television production and out of period at that, a character in "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" wears a manica with upward-overlapping scales.