Roman wall painting of musculata in color from first century

[Tarbicus]

Theo, I pinpointed both hamata and squamata in the same mosaic, and they look very different to my eyes. To be honest, lamellar is the only other possible candidate.

For instance, here's one figure's mixed armour. The cuirass is definitely scale, but the legs are, IMHO, lamellar or femenalia. The style of the leg armour looks different to the 'seg-type' I first pointed out, as well as has the individual plates defined in the vertical.



We have a current topic elsewhere reconstructing the Dura lamellar leg armour, and I don't see why this couldn't be similar for infantry. On the other hand, they may be femenalia :wink: I wish they'd painted these scenes....