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Shoe tying Lorica Segmentata?
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As to the tying - I do it as a shoe tie. I consider the odds of a sword strike coming ideally vertically between the hoops and severing the cord without doing me any damage to be so minuscule as to be completely negligible. And the "threat" described here would include two such strokes - first to "unzip" my armour, second to "unzip" my guts. Just won't happen. And no one in their right mind will try to cut the opponent's thonging when there so much unexposed flesh to go around - a stab to the face included.

When you disassemble segmentata, it folds nicely into a half-moon for easy storage or transportation. As the contubernium tents were quite small it would make sense to disassemble the armour for the night, instead of trying to find some space for eight of them in ready-state inside or leaving them outside. Also - if the armour was to always be tied, what is even the point of those loops? Why not just make it from half-circle stripes buckled on the side, musculata-style?

But there is no evidence either way. So go with whatever works for you.
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Re: Shoe tying Lorica Segmentata? - by Yurko - 06-02-2011, 05:22 AM
Re: Shoe tying Lorica Segmentata? - by Magnus - 06-03-2011, 03:07 AM
Re: Shoe tying Lorica Segmentata? - by Piotr Smolanski - 06-06-2011, 12:17 PM
Re: Shoe tying Lorica Segmentata? - by dengland - 06-07-2011, 05:06 AM
Re: Shoe tying Lorica Segmentata? - by A_Volpe - 06-09-2011, 03:08 AM

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