Another new Graham Sumner book?

[Condottiero Magno]

Regarding the legionary on the cover, what is he wearing?

It looks like leather musculata, with leather shoulder doubling and pteruges, over a red tunic. Are those breeches or pteruges on his legs?

Thats from the tombstone of the legionary C. Valerius Crispus from Wiesbaden. Those segmented looking "shorts" could either be damage on the tombstone giving it the impression of beying somehow segmented or be interpreted as pteruges. Seems like the authors went for pteruges. The armor itself does look like leather in the pic, although looking at a foto of the tombstone it doesn't look to me necesserily as leather, but I'll wait for the arguments in the book. Ring mail seems to me quite plausible as well.

Thanks for the reference source, found the tombstone[url:2e2rvlwk]http://museums.ncl.ac.uk/archive/arma/contents/iconog/tombston/cent1/rhinelan.da/crispus.htm[/url]. Odd color for mail and I'm not convinced that those are pteruges, as I've never seen them as form fitting leggings. Instead of pteruges, might it be a padded garment?

Below the figure's right shoulder doubling, I think there's a molded nipple.