New discovery: loricas segmentatas Leon, Spain

[Gaius Colletti]

The basic problem is that -- discounting Trajan's Column -- there is still no definite iconography proving the theory that only legionaries wore this type of armour and auxiliaries didn't. (Of course, we simply assume that all the men on TC who are not wearing the 'lorica segmentata' are auxiliaries, and all the men who are wearing the 'lorica segmentata' are legionaries, but there's no proof.)

But when you see images like this from Trajan's column:

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It is hard to dispute that we are led to believe, whether it be the truth or artistic interpretation that the legionaries are all wearing segmentata, their scutums laying around. Then you have the two soldiers in the middle with oval shields, not wearing segmentata, we are meant to believe they are auxiliaries.

Auxiliaries may have worn segmentata at some point, but in the first century/early second century is there any evidence that they did?