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Are all of these patterns suitable for the first century AD? Would the last pattern have been reserved for officers? What does the evidence say?

The evidence from funerary stele and stones says that scalloped edges like this were worn by standard bearers and centurions. The regular soldiers that appear in scale on the metopes of the Tropeum Traiani at Adamklissi do not have this feature.

Cavalry tombstones do not have this feature, for the obvious reason that a shorter armour is better to ride in.