Maille Shirts without Doublers

[Primvs Pavlvs]

Is there any evidence to support legionares wearing shirts without doublers in the 1st cent?

[Crispvs]

Try this

http://www.romanarmy.com/cms/component/ ... Itemid,94/

Crispvs

[Marcus Cassius LegioXIV]

Try this

http://www.romanarmy.com/cms/component/ ... Itemid,94/

Crispvs

Is that an oval shield, seems odd for a legionary.

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

Looks dished, curved, like a republican type?

[Magnus]

I dunno...the front shield boss looks highly decorative like the kind you see on imperial scuta...but maybe it's some kind of cavalry shield?

[Martin Wallgren]

Could he have been a Praetorian? According to, is it Seutonius? They had different shields than the legionarys. Remeber something about how some P. Troops took up L. shields and fooled everybody they where L. And in that way the manage to sneak around, or something.

Does it say anything on that subject.

[hansvl]

Hi,

According to the inscription on the tombstone:
C(aius) Castriciu/s C(ai) Off(entina) Vict/
or Como mil(es) /
leg(ionis) II Ad(iutricis) |(centuria) M(arci) /
Turbonis an(norum) /
XXXVIII stip(endiorum) XIIII /
h(ic) s(itus) e(st) L(ucius) Lucilius f(ilius) /
et he(res) posuit p(atri) p(iissimo)

He is C. Castricius Victor of Legio II Adiutrix, so definitely a legionary soldier.

Hans

[Crispvs]

I don't actually sign up to the idea that legionaries all carried the same shape of shield. If you look at stelae you can see a variety of shapes and when you look at monuments such as the Adamklissi metopes I challenge anyone to find me more than two shields which actually appear to be straight sided and regular.
As long as all the shields in a unit had roughly the same degree of curvature it would probably make very little difference what the actual shape of the shield was as long as it was a suitable size. A matching curvature would allow for formations such as the testudo to be performed.

Crispvs

[Primvs Pavlvs]

I don't actually sign up to the idea that legionaries all carried the same shape of shield. If you look at stelae you can see a variety of shapes and when you look at monuments such as the Adamklissi metopes I challenge anyone to find me more than two shields which actually appear to be straight sided and regular.
As long as all the shields in a unit had roughly the same degree of curvature it would probably make very little difference what the actual shape of the shield was as long as it was a suitable size. A matching curvature would allow for formations such as the testudo to be performed.

Crispvs

A man after my own thinking!!! Thanks Crispvs!