09-15-2005, 12:37 AM
Hello Carlton and Conal
Raffaele D'Amato the author of Roman Military Clothing 3 has asked me to post the following which he hopes will answer some if not all of your questions. Graham.
Dear all
I will put some light on Your questions.
For Conal : The man with the Pectoraris (this is the name of the chest armour in leather) is copied from an original sculpture found in Ravenna representing the bodyguard of the Exarch. The present location of it is now unknown but luckily for us Hottenroth copied it in its original colour because at the end of XIX century it was still in Ravenna.
Graham has used the original sculpture redrawn by Hottenroth as his original source ; the garments have been reconstructed from Egyptian textiles as well as the Campagi, the helmet from specimens from the Black Sea and the Netherlands. The leather garment is mentioned by Iohannes Lydus as the ‘Saraka’, used by soldiers in time of peace.
Saraka is the word from which originated the italian word “casaccaâ€ÂÂ
Raffaele D'Amato the author of Roman Military Clothing 3 has asked me to post the following which he hopes will answer some if not all of your questions. Graham.
Dear all
I will put some light on Your questions.
For Conal : The man with the Pectoraris (this is the name of the chest armour in leather) is copied from an original sculpture found in Ravenna representing the bodyguard of the Exarch. The present location of it is now unknown but luckily for us Hottenroth copied it in its original colour because at the end of XIX century it was still in Ravenna.
Graham has used the original sculpture redrawn by Hottenroth as his original source ; the garments have been reconstructed from Egyptian textiles as well as the Campagi, the helmet from specimens from the Black Sea and the Netherlands. The leather garment is mentioned by Iohannes Lydus as the ‘Saraka’, used by soldiers in time of peace.
Saraka is the word from which originated the italian word “casaccaâ€ÂÂ
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
