lorica segmentata Question

[mcbishop]

Thank you Magister Twit
I had not seen that article since I saw it in a friends copy of exercitus long ago and greatly appreciate it being made available. Based on your deductive reasoning and scholarship I carried the theory that Roman shoulder pads may be depicted in some gladiator depictions- such as the Borghese mosaic

I know that the black garment could also be just the rear of the helmet
but once you start looking it is easy to interpret either way.

Glad it's appreciated ;-) I think I see what you mean; presumably you are interpreting it as linked to the manica (which must have had a padded lining for the same reasons; no trace of it on the Carlisle armguards, though, but that means little).

Mike Bishop