05-11-2012, 12:00 AM
Leon,
Personally I would stay away from the greaves you posted. They look like something out of a Hollywood Roman Epic.
Unfortunately, there are not many greaves from the Roman period especially in the 1st C. I think that the website Roma Victrix shows iron greaves. However, they do not look anything like the ones you posted. The best guess would be those on stela that show the greaves over the knee and somewhat around the leg having straps to hold them down. Exactly as in the photo posted earlier.
If the imagebase was running, you would be able to look at certain centurion stela and get an idea as to what centurion greaves would have been like.
Personally I would stay away from the greaves you posted. They look like something out of a Hollywood Roman Epic.
Unfortunately, there are not many greaves from the Roman period especially in the 1st C. I think that the website Roma Victrix shows iron greaves. However, they do not look anything like the ones you posted. The best guess would be those on stela that show the greaves over the knee and somewhat around the leg having straps to hold them down. Exactly as in the photo posted earlier.
If the imagebase was running, you would be able to look at certain centurion stela and get an idea as to what centurion greaves would have been like.
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Paolo
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