10-30-2018, 10:33 PM
(10-30-2018, 09:05 PM)CaesarAugustus Wrote: the Ridge helmet... offers less protection compared to Imperial Italic.
What makes you think that? Why would the Roman army have switched to an inferior helmet?
(the 'cheaper' idea is belied by the fact that so many of these late helmets were plated in gold or silver!)
(10-30-2018, 09:05 PM)CaesarAugustus Wrote: Do we have any valuable source that denies this thesis?
The fact that the Romans continued to use them for 100+ years and never went back to the Gallic/Italic model?
Nathan Ross
