Leather Squamata.......Really?

[daryush]

Roman historians and reenactors... are very keen to label absolutely anything and everything... as "Roman"

But isn't there a countering urge to label anything which doesn't fit our rather narrow evidence-based conception of what Romans did or wore or used as 'non-Roman'? Both these misconceptions are changing, I think, as we gain more understanding of the plurality of the Roman world, but it's a slow process...

Hmmm, I guess I am not seeing this trend changing. Perhaps it is changing more on the Central European / NW European fronts (where I'm not really involved at all, other than the occasional Central Asian influences) rather than the West Asian theatre where I mainly operate. My attempts to re-label certain finds and depictions based on style rather than location (Antinoe, Dura Europos, Kerch, for example) have been met with insane stubbornness.