04-16-2013, 05:58 PM
What I don't understand in this, is why bother to sculpt the helmet, the greaves, the shield, the belt and gladius, and not the armour? The subarmalis seems to me a minor piece of the equipment.
Ancients had different mentalities, but in this, they would represent what would be seen by all, not a subarmalis.
Maybe I'm wrong of course, and the shape of the helmet, not really in use by the time of Severius Acceptus, makes me think that this stele is just an evocative way of depicting this centurion.
We could debate on this for ages, we'll never know what is this thing on the right.
A friend alerted me for this in the crypt of the "Abbazia di San Domenico Abate a Sora", Italy :
![[Image: centurio-sora.jpg]](http://static-media.com/rome/lamellaire/centurio-sora.jpg)
It's stone reemployed for the construction of the church. Look at the belt.
Ancients had different mentalities, but in this, they would represent what would be seen by all, not a subarmalis.
Maybe I'm wrong of course, and the shape of the helmet, not really in use by the time of Severius Acceptus, makes me think that this stele is just an evocative way of depicting this centurion.
We could debate on this for ages, we'll never know what is this thing on the right.
A friend alerted me for this in the crypt of the "Abbazia di San Domenico Abate a Sora", Italy :
It's stone reemployed for the construction of the church. Look at the belt.
![[Image: inaciem-bandeau.png]](http://static-media.com/rome/inaciem-bandeau.png)
