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[Urselius]

To return to the pteruges question, there are many illustrations of Byzantine soldiers where apparent pteruges are shown at the shoulder and hip. They are sometimes shown in conjunction with other figures wearing scale or mail armour of "normal" construction. This suggests that the defences depicted are real. However, lifted arms show that the shoulder strips are not separate, they are connected to form a type of tubular rerebrace. Similarly, the depictions of the skirt strips never show any gaps or disarrangement of the strips, also suggesting that the strips are not separate. Just as the lamellar klivanion had the same outline as a classical muscle cuirass, the strip armour was also favoured because it gave the soldier a superficially classical appearance, but the construction of these defences was not identical to those of classical armours.