Making Pteruges (or at least trying to make Pteruges!)

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Ave Marcus,

I understand your point about the Adamclisi metopes however, this seems to be the exception not the rule. Most scenes lack detail and where I do see Pteruges, they appear to be one layer... although most could be hidden by armor.

Other famous sculptures from antiquity, such as Trajan’s column and the base of Antonius Pius do not show most soldiers with Pteruges.

Of the 54 panels at the Adamclisi metopes, many panels do not show soldiers with layers of Pteruges... many of the panels show the soldiers with tunics only, many of the panels show Roman soldiers without armor, even when marching with shields. The link to some of the panels is below.

I am not saying that soldiers cannot or did not wear Pteruges, unequivocally not… what I am saying is that most did not, mostly due to the cost and time consuming method of making them. Armor being the more important purchase.

Link:
[url:5obqdqja]http://museums.ncl.ac.uk/archive/arma/contents/iconog/provinci/adamklis/metope.htm[/url]

Images:

Looks like one layer on the arm and two layers of Tongue Pteruges around the waist


With chainmaile... could be Pteruges, maybe


These soldiers are not wearing helmets or armor or Pteruges...