Leather Cuirass

[Tarbicus]

To Tarbicus : You are right that Everson is hardly a good source...

Quel surpris... Ergo, Sekunda is useless....

...the idea here was to examine the original source material with a fresh, unbiased eye rather than seek to air old opinions.

Which simply means, and sorry to spoil your party, "I want to ignore other scholars and their work."

What if , fellow RATters, I were to suggest not only that leather segmented armour existed, but that I had virtually absolute proof that it did ???? ( I can almost hear the murmurs of Heresy, Heresy !!)....

No, it's not heresy, it's simply repeating what the Victorians said.

...Then let me tell you a story. In 1975, excited by the revelations in Robinson's "Armour of Imperial Rome", I travelled to Italy....

....And among the long sleeved scale coats and other armour, an incredible piece. Segmented armour that came down to the hips with no vertical shoulder pieces. Instead,

.....Segmented leather armour DID exist in 105 A.D., and is illustrated clearly on Trajan's Column !!! But it was Sarmatian rather than Roman....... still sure that leather segmentata didn't exist ?? The Romans copied many other things Sarmatian !!

Well done to the Sarmatians. Where is your evidence for Romans using leather segs as standard armour? It's a simple question, and non-hysterical. But you do say it wasn't Roman....

I don't even understand what the flippin' thread's about anymore.