Scale Armor & Accuracy

[Kegluneq]

do anyone knows if they were published (reference needeed)?
do you knoe how big they are?

There's a limited discussion of these scales in Simon James 2004, The Excavations at Dura-Europos conducted by Yale University and the French Academy of Inscriptions and Letters 1928 to 1937: Final Report VII, The Arms and Armour and other Military Equipment. London: The British Museum Press, p120-139. There's some limited discussion of measurements and further (smaller, B&W) images. For some reason the last piece cited by Markus (1938.5999.1230) isn't included in that catalogue, as far as I can tell.

The problem highlighted there with using isolated lengths of scale (or individual scales) is that they didn't necessarily come from loricae. Dura finds included sections identified by James as being from cuisses (thigh armour) or horse armour, which may have had different design requirements compared to body armour. A lighter construction method would probably be preferred for house armour, for instance. The same could also be said for people though - most soldiers would rather be carrying less weight!