Gambesons in roman times?

[Nathan Ross]

There are numerous sculptural depictions of Roman soldiers wearing or owning what appear to be padded or quilted body armour of various sorts. Despite the usual cautions about trusting artistic images or misreading them, I think it's pretty safe to say that this kind of armour was used to some extent.

We don't know what it was called - but we don't know what the Romans actually called 'lorica segmentata' either...