Proposed Centurion Pteryges

[Peroni]

Magnus, I see what you're getting at, but I'm sorry, but the facilis stone overlaps. What you have indentified as gaps are in fact the depth of the strap in the sculpture. Because it is carved in three dimensions, you are actually looking at the thickness of the strip NOT a gap between.

Take a cereal box from your cupboard - look at it so that you can see both the side face and the front face. Now colour the side face in red like you have for the photo. That's what I'm trying to say. :wink:

This stone is in my local museum.

Based on these 2 examples, I don't see how it can be shown that centurions had more than a single row.

What? hock: it's right in front of you! Facilis has TWO rows of pteruges!