03-23-2011, 09:32 AM
It's true that we have no musculatas from the late Republic or Principate, but how many hamatas do we have? We have a few fragments of hamatas, bits and pieces of a few segmentatas, some scales from squamatas and a few lames here and there. Yet there must have been thousands of these for each musculata. We have musculatas from earlier periods when musculatas were a fairly common form of armor, not just for officers and when grave-goods were buried with the dead.