leather cuirass

[Matt Lukes]

Good point. On the dimension of the piece and further information, Caballo provided the following link in the thread on Mr. D'Amato's book:

-Leather segmentata- The prime evidence here has always been sculptural- e.g. Trajan’s column or the Portonaccio sarcophagus. The argument against has always been that there was no archeological evidence. However, D’Amato quotes the leather displayed from Qasr Ibrim, which the British Museum also classify as a possible body armour ( http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/s ... rentPage=1) . For what its worth, I started off extremely sceptical about the possibility of leather segmentata. By the end, I certainly believed that there is a case to be made, but not 100% convinced. But could all those contemporary Roman sculptors, acting independently in different places, all be wrong?

It appears that the object has the following Dimensions: Length: 51 centimetres (approx.), Width: 8.8 centimetres. This would make the piece more of a broad waistband than actual armour, assuming that it is complete.

51x8.8cm? That barely goes around half my waist (which isn't ample I assure you LOL), and it's exceedingly narrow- I admit I'm guilty of not considering dimensions at first when I saw the 'slits' and assumed they were ther to allow forward bending, but clearly at 88mm, they're not exactly necessary for that. So as a 'waistband' it'd fit a child?

And is it really appropriate for this to become another specific individuals' theories (dubious or not) thread though- that and the topic of leather armour in general have already multiple-page threads anyway, so unless there's something new, just re-hashing the same stuff here doesn't seem at all necessary...