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What is this Scaled Roman Belt/apron?
#1
So I saw an image on page 35 of 'The complete Roman Army', an illustration of a corvus boarding, The centurion on the far right caught my eye. I love the combination of hamata/squamata, but I have never seen a belt/apron like this, could any of you guys let me know what this is and if this was only in use during the roman republic?

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Damian Laurence Zamprogno
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#2
The illustration is Peter Connolly's.

In his book, Greece and Rome at War, he shows part of an Etruscan urn with a warrior wearing this scaled 'apron' (pg.81). So, I'm not sure if it would have been worn by Republican legionaries. Connolly's illustrations are sometimes speculative (which I applaud, btw). He also has a Macedonian phalangite wearing this apron on page 78.

Maybe the apron is shown in a Roman historical context on some other depiction that I'm not aware of.

~Theo
Jaime
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