Trajan´s Column questions?

[Martin Wallgren]

As far as showing the subarmalis goes, why would a soldier be shown wearing a subarmalis if he was not wearing his armour? The two, surely, are meant to complement each other rather than exist exclusively of one another.

Are we realy shure of that? In Medieval times the textile armour is in use separatly. Again I will stress that Textile armour is much more effective than it usually gets credit for. At any rate it is underrepresented in pictures and archaeological finds due to its nature of rotting away and that it is often the poor mans choice. With this I don´t suggest that legionarys where running around in their subarmalis only but in the irregulars and in the Auxiliary I belive it could have been one or two!

Again this is speculations from my side and comparison to the later eras of human wars!