02-20-2008, 08:47 PM
Quote:"Current research leans to all discovered Mainz scabbards having full plates on the exposed side of the scabbard"
Whose research is this? Only one type of Mainz scabbard actually features large embossed plates on its front side.
Crispvs
Gladii decorated with opus interrasile have too "full plates on the exposed side of the scabbard".
But the "Porto Vechio/ Long Windsor/ Valkenburg" type, don't have metalic plates.
Cesar Pocinya
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