Pteruges

[Theodosius the Great]

Neat!

Where is this from?

Hi Travis,

It's in Copenhagen. How did it get there ?! :lol:

[url:3ss1avxi]http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/000Free/000Survivors/source/47.html[/url]

As always, MA is always shown in the more conventional cavalry boots, and not the more elaborate kind. It must've been a decree it's so dang dogmatic

Oh, you mean he's not wearing the boots with the Lion heads ? I would think MA was playing down his military experience, since those elaborate ones were worn by experienced Emperors like Trajan and Hadrian.

Also he's holding the sheath to the parazonium in one hand with the sword drawn in the other! Never seen that before!

Cool, now I have a new pose I can use

However, I've NEVER seen two tier shoulder pteruges.

Until I found this image of MA, I've only seen them in Late Roman art. But now I guess they can be dated to the 2nd century, assuming this statue hasn't been heavily restored.

Hi Flavius,

Finally, he is wearing a sword (with the hilt rather badly copied from the Stilicho ivory) suspended from a baldric, which is something almost never seen on depictions of an officer (or emperor) wearing a muscle cuirass

The earliest possible example I've seen of an officer wearing a baldric is this one from Travis' website :



This is dated to the early 3rd C. As you can see, he's wearing scales but in the shape of a musculata if you look at the bottom.

BTW, is that supposed to be a baldric for a gladius or a parazonium ?