04-23-2013, 05:49 PM
Timoth Dawson wrote:
The leather I referred to is the hardened form generally accepted as having been used to mould the ornate Roman heroic cuirasses.
I did not know this is generally accepted. Is there some source that gives a strong indication, or has someone persuasively argued this? Where those cuirasses then worn while commanding troops and accepting praise and felicitations, or were they used as the basis for a mould in a fabrication process?
Jori wrote:
I don't see the segmentata.
To me the armour seems to be composed of superimposed hoops, the lowest with a rolled edge. What do you see?
The leather I referred to is the hardened form generally accepted as having been used to mould the ornate Roman heroic cuirasses.
I did not know this is generally accepted. Is there some source that gives a strong indication, or has someone persuasively argued this? Where those cuirasses then worn while commanding troops and accepting praise and felicitations, or were they used as the basis for a mould in a fabrication process?
Jori wrote:
I don't see the segmentata.
To me the armour seems to be composed of superimposed hoops, the lowest with a rolled edge. What do you see?
