Late 4th century sarcophagus

[Caballo]

Thanks Byron. Its actually Moses (looking very smug and pleased with himself and without the Charlton Heston beard) parting the Red Sea, getting the Israelites across and lettingthe waters come together to drown Pharoah's pursuing army.

I think medieval reenactors (and even academics) have a lot of useful insight here. Some form of textile armour seems absolutely right.

And I hadn't noticed the chap with the life preserver in his cloak...very odd, but clearly a deliberate bit of carving as very easy to chip down to normal cloak proportions if it had been a mistake. Other ideas?