03-07-2005, 09:29 PM
Quote:</em></strong><hr>(a) A praetorian guardsman wearing a brass or gilded lorica segmentata?<hr><br>
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Flavius, you mean "bronze" not "brass" don't you ? <br>
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I suppose I choose : <span style="font-size:medium;"><strong>(b)</strong></span>.<br>
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Assuming it isn't Mars, it looks like an early Republican legionary with his Italo-Corinthian helmet, greaves, greek-style shield and thursting spear. The armor is very difficult to make out (due to bad preservation or just the quality of the picture taken). If the armor is consistent with the rest of the equipment, then it would have to be a muscled cuirass, right ?<br>
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-Theo <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p200.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=theodosiusthegreat>Theodosius the Great</A> at: 3/7/05 10:30 pm<br></i>
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Flavius, you mean "bronze" not "brass" don't you ? <br>
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I suppose I choose : <span style="font-size:medium;"><strong>(b)</strong></span>.<br>
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Assuming it isn't Mars, it looks like an early Republican legionary with his Italo-Corinthian helmet, greaves, greek-style shield and thursting spear. The armor is very difficult to make out (due to bad preservation or just the quality of the picture taken). If the armor is consistent with the rest of the equipment, then it would have to be a muscled cuirass, right ?<br>
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-Theo <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p200.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=theodosiusthegreat>Theodosius the Great</A> at: 3/7/05 10:30 pm<br></i>
Jaime
