12-10-2011, 06:12 PM
The illustration is Peter Connolly's.
In his book, Greece and Rome at War, he shows part of an Etruscan urn with a warrior wearing this scaled 'apron' (pg.81). So, I'm not sure if it would have been worn by Republican legionaries. Connolly's illustrations are sometimes speculative (which I applaud, btw). He also has a Macedonian phalangite wearing this apron on page 78.
Maybe the apron is shown in a Roman historical context on some other depiction that I'm not aware of.
~Theo
In his book, Greece and Rome at War, he shows part of an Etruscan urn with a warrior wearing this scaled 'apron' (pg.81). So, I'm not sure if it would have been worn by Republican legionaries. Connolly's illustrations are sometimes speculative (which I applaud, btw). He also has a Macedonian phalangite wearing this apron on page 78.
Maybe the apron is shown in a Roman historical context on some other depiction that I'm not aware of.
~Theo
Jaime
