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Roman armor as shown on Coins
#16
Quote:HAMLET Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel?
POLONIUS By th' mass, and ’tis like a camel indeed.
HAMLET Methinks it is like a weasel.
POLONIUS It is backed like a weasel.
HAMLET Or like a subarmalis.
POLONIUS Very like a subarmalis.

Mike Bishop


:-D

Here's a different die which shows a slightly different form:

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#17
Quote:it's stylised, that's for sure!! It has a crest, but of metal or horsehair??
The helmet looks rather more like a straw hat! :wink:
It might be an Intercisa helmet, but frankly it's anyone's guess..
These 'hat' helmets turn up a lot on coins, in various forms. Three possibilities, I think:

a) it's just a stylised way of depicting a helmet on a very little coin.

b) it's based on a gladiatorial helmet ( :neutral: )

c) it's based on a real helmet type with a wide brim. You see the like in reliefs quite often: the brim is sometimes flattish, sometimes turned up at the front like a sou'wester. Mikkalus is admiring a fine example here:

[img size=335x500]http://www.romanarmy.com/cms/images/stories/imagebase/FirstnameST/lg_TFlaviusMikkalusd3.jpg[/img]

Or perhaps it's just a straw hat... with a horsehair crest... :wink:
Nathan Ross
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#18
I think that the last coin shows a Corinthian helmet as often seen worn by the God Mars simply perched on the back of the head with a horse hair crest and side feathers.
Brian Stobbs
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#19
Quote:I think that the last coin shows a Corinthian helmet as often seen worn by the God Mars simply perched on the back of the head with a horse hair crest and side feathers.
Which would, stilized, also look like a straw hat with a crest.
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#20
Well didn't they say that Augustus used to wear a straw hat while tending his figs? :grin:
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#21
In a thread about Leather armour (musculata etc) there was a picture of a subarmalis draped over a tree stump on a statue. I do not know anymore where that topic is but the statue is in the Vatican Museum. It is Roman and the "armour" is draped over the tree stump.

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#22
I thought that was ruled as being the subarmalis?
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#23
Yes it was indeed.

That is why that could be an important clue for subarmalia.

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#24
My thoughts exactly. :wink:
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#25
Quote:I thought that was ruled as being the subarmalis?
It was Robinson's original suggestion for one!

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#26
Quote:Well didn't they say that Augustus used to wear a straw hat while tending his figs? :grin:

And Sulla in Africa?
Martin
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#27
Sorry...apparently I can't read very well sometimes. :???:
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