05-18-2017, 07:29 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-18-2017, 08:59 AM by Crispianus.)
(05-17-2017, 11:25 PM)Flavivs Aetivs Wrote: No. Well there's one example from Egypt which was a local style used for a horse. All the Roman ones are Cupric Alloy or Steel.
I assume you mean the "leather" Armour from Dura.... For details on the construction and use see: http://www.spa-uitgevers.nl/Webwinkel-Pr...pment.html
From Karanis, most probably Rawhide, although such items are often referred to as leather they survive only under exceptional circumstances:
http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/...armor.html
note the final product was painted Red, from the look of it the form may well have been similar to other scale shirts... no further details known to me precently...
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
