10-08-2009, 02:54 AM
Quote:Quote:They show on the right-top corner the British Museum supposed armour, that it seems to me not to be a piece of segmentata because it is a single piece of leather, am I right?D'Amato uses this piece of leather as evidence for the existence of leather segmentata. I'm not sure that this item has any military context at all.
I got a brief look at the book this past weekend, and I remember that D'Amato insisted that this leather thing was *Roman*, not Egyptian, though he doesn't say why in the immediate text. There might have been a footnote that explained, but I didn't have time to dig deeper. No mention of an inscription, context, etc., that I saw.
For that matter, I don't recall seeing any dimensions of the piece in question. Could it possibly have some other function, like a piece of horse harness? Granted, it *looks* like a charioteer's torso wrap thingy, but if he's going to base so much on this piece we need more details.
Matthew
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