Face mask or face guard in late roman period

[Nathan Ross]

should we split off the heliodorus discussion?

Not sure about Heliodorus alone - not enough people have access to the original text to comment on it, and what's being said is (mostly) still bearing on the clibanarii question.

However, we have moved on from discussing whether any late Roman troops wore masks - perhaps taking the latter stages of this thread and renaming it as a debate about clibanarii equipment in literary sources might work (although that has been discussed here before, I think...)