10-22-2006, 12:09 PM
Tarbicus wrote:
I have seen the same pictures before described as dockworkers, I think they were Gallic, with supports around their waists so I too was under the impression this was evidence for the Fascia ventralis or ventralem. Therefore I was surprised to see them as evidence for leather armour or does the article say leather back support?
Graham.
Quote:In there two images are pointed out that are claimed to be leather plates about the body, but quite frankly they seem to me to be examples of fascia ventralis bound around the tunic:_________________
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I have seen the same pictures before described as dockworkers, I think they were Gallic, with supports around their waists so I too was under the impression this was evidence for the Fascia ventralis or ventralem. Therefore I was surprised to see them as evidence for leather armour or does the article say leather back support?
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
