03-29-2012, 02:53 PM
Quote:Further support of some use of a cross strap comes from these late Roman mosaics images. Quite a few of them that don't have a cloak hiding the left side of the body, show cross straps that are the same color as the belt. Some that have the cloaks, show a glimps of the red near the neck on the right side hiding the red cross strap.I'm not so sure about that. You call it a cross-strap, I call it a baldric.
Also, when not wearing armour, the belt does not need any cross-straps to support it, this only occurs when it's worn over armour. This is also why I think that the Piazza Armerina mosaics show baldrics, not belt supports.
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)