04-26-2011, 07:51 AM
Hello Yurko
Curious to know why it being accepted practice for the mounted arm and not for an infantryman
It is not accepted practice that the fascia is worn by cavalry and not infantry as the majority of characters who appear to be wearing it in ancient art are infantry. One function of the fascia ventralis would appear to be to protect the tunic from the belt and some supporting evidence for this can be seen in a Vindolanda writing tablet. A possible later waistband may be seen on the Dura Europos Terentius Fresco and a hunting mosaic from Apamea, both referenced in RMD.
However I think the initial question was, what is the evidence for the fabric waistband being worn over mail in the late empire by either cavalry or infantry? I would have to answer none at all as far as I am aware but I would be delighted to hear otherwise.
Indeed I think I only found three pieces of evidence for the fabric belts being worn over armour in the entire Republican or early imperial period combined, one of which is a possible legionary. Only one of those three clearly looks like a fabric belt, the one from the Etruscan relief, while the other two including the warrior illustrated above are not so straightforward to interpret.
Thanks for your PM and I am pleased to hear you like the book!
Graham.
Curious to know why it being accepted practice for the mounted arm and not for an infantryman
It is not accepted practice that the fascia is worn by cavalry and not infantry as the majority of characters who appear to be wearing it in ancient art are infantry. One function of the fascia ventralis would appear to be to protect the tunic from the belt and some supporting evidence for this can be seen in a Vindolanda writing tablet. A possible later waistband may be seen on the Dura Europos Terentius Fresco and a hunting mosaic from Apamea, both referenced in RMD.
However I think the initial question was, what is the evidence for the fabric waistband being worn over mail in the late empire by either cavalry or infantry? I would have to answer none at all as far as I am aware but I would be delighted to hear otherwise.
Indeed I think I only found three pieces of evidence for the fabric belts being worn over armour in the entire Republican or early imperial period combined, one of which is a possible legionary. Only one of those three clearly looks like a fabric belt, the one from the Etruscan relief, while the other two including the warrior illustrated above are not so straightforward to interpret.
Thanks for your PM and I am pleased to hear you like the book!
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
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"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.