12-25-2019, 01:45 AM
(12-24-2019, 12:52 AM)Dan Howard Wrote: The twined piece from Dura is not a leg guard. It is a liner for a metal leg guard. It is obvious when you see the wear pattern. I'm petty sure that James' original report says that it is a greave liner. The Masada twined fragment could be from ptyruges but it is only speculation. It could just as likely be from a floor rug.
The Masada linen fragments numbered 16-1174 and 1181/2 has a selvage on both sides with a total width of 3.2 cm. That seems to me to be right about the right width for pteryges (maye shoulder ones) rather than part of a floor rug.
In "Fragments Of Linen From Masada, Israel – The Remnants Of Pteryges? – And Related Finds in Weft- and Warp- Twining Including Several Slings" by Hero Granger-Taylor, Granger-Taylor hypothesizes that it may have been a Greave proper rather than just a liner based on the cut on the knee which Granger-Taylor thought unlikely if it had only been used to line a piece of metal armour. I'd be interested in knowing more about the wear pattern and how that indicates use as a liner.
Levi Sherman
