06-13-2013, 04:23 PM
Lets put it this way.........it does not matter if Roman leather or metal musculata have been found or not. The fact is that no leather musculata has been found in ANY Greek, Etruscan or Roman contexts. The only one attributed to the Romans is from the book of D'Amato AND its metal. Moreover, in the Metropolitan Museum in NY, ALL the musculata examples are metal and they derive from the other two. There are also Southern Italian musculata examples in the Met....they are metal.
If there had been a leather musculata found previous to the Romans the argument could hold water. But no DICE.
Also the argument, its leather and so it rotted.....holds NO water. Many leather items have been found and some in decent enough condition to extrapolate quite plausible means of construction or composition. So something like a musculata which is considerably larger than caligae, would have left some sort of trace somewhere throughout the three civilizations mentioned above.
If there had been a leather musculata found previous to the Romans the argument could hold water. But no DICE.
Also the argument, its leather and so it rotted.....holds NO water. Many leather items have been found and some in decent enough condition to extrapolate quite plausible means of construction or composition. So something like a musculata which is considerably larger than caligae, would have left some sort of trace somewhere throughout the three civilizations mentioned above.
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