07-30-2012, 01:21 AM
Quote:"Everyone looks nicely kitted out."
I don't know what sleeves were like in the second half of the second century AD but for the first half the extant evidence would suggest that tunics were still wide enough to reach to the elbow or forearm without the addition of sleeves.
These tombstones show tunics reaching only about halfway between the shoulder and the elbow, more or less.
M. CVRIVS ALEXANDER
(Alexander Kyrychenko)
LEG XI CPF
quando omni flunkus, mortati
(Alexander Kyrychenko)
LEG XI CPF
quando omni flunkus, mortati