05-11-2006, 06:03 PM
Avete!
Perplexingly, there were no manicae found at Pompeii. Perhaps they were made of organic material (linen, leather, etc.)?
Conventional thought is that the Roman (initially, anyway) were shorter than their Germanic opponents, though this certainly isn't clear from Adamklissi. But assuming this were true, torso plates overlapping downward makes perfect sense. I had thought I'd read of a lorica seg torso and mail shoulder section hybrid, supposedly used by cavalry... and on that example, the torso plates did indeed overlap bottom to top (believe it was in MC Bishop's Lorica Seg Vol 1, I'll have to recheck it).
M.Valerius Aelianus
Jim Whitley
Legio VI Victrix, L.A.
Quote:If there is an example from a gladiatorial context that is different, then this could be interesting. (I don't know of any?- maybe some of the Pompeii stuff?)
Perplexingly, there were no manicae found at Pompeii. Perhaps they were made of organic material (linen, leather, etc.)?
Quote:Which brings me back to one observation. The girdle plates of the lorica segmentata tend to overlap downwards.
Conventional thought is that the Roman (initially, anyway) were shorter than their Germanic opponents, though this certainly isn't clear from Adamklissi. But assuming this were true, torso plates overlapping downward makes perfect sense. I had thought I'd read of a lorica seg torso and mail shoulder section hybrid, supposedly used by cavalry... and on that example, the torso plates did indeed overlap bottom to top (believe it was in MC Bishop's Lorica Seg Vol 1, I'll have to recheck it).
M.Valerius Aelianus
Jim Whitley
Legio VI Victrix, L.A.
