scale/lamellar armour

[Crispianus]

No I don't mean Dura, I mean Karanis. Both were analyzed and are poorly-tanned leather. Not rawhide.

Dura is what they call exposed lacing hanging lamellar, not scale. Comitatus has a reconstruction which they wear both inside-out and on their thighs (based on Simon James' initial report from 2004, he later corrected this). The original was a neckguard for a horse.

The Karanis fragments are too large to have been for a human as well, the shape of the neck is consistent with the size of a horse's neck. And yes it was originally dyed red. The fragments were being reanalyzed a few years ago (original publication from 1925) to be republished, but I haven't heard word since then.

On the Karanis Armour, I dont know what you mean by "Poorly Tanned", its either tanned, tawed, cured, rawhide a combination or something else entirely... sounds more like half tanned though where the core is rawhide...

Scale size, not sure I would say 5X3cm or so (dura 65x45 to90x50mm) is too big for a scale shirt especially when half is overlap effectively doubling the thickness, I estimate the neck as layed out is 36cm which is obviously too large but pretty certain you could get it down to much less then that..

Not seen any additional papers on the Dura armour by Simon James so I can't really comment on that, but considering how the scales fall Im having trouble seeing how it could be hung on a horse? note the metal horse armour overlaps top to bottom/ front to back...