04-23-2013, 05:28 PM
Quote:A friend alerted me for this in the crypt of the "Abbazia di San Domenico Abate a Sora", Italy :
Back to this one, I later realised that lamellar armour seems to show horizontal bands, instead of vertical ones like this. I think that it makes it less likely that the artist had lamellar armour in mind.
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)