07-05-2009, 01:39 AM
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Regarding the legionary on the cover, what is he wearing?
It looks like leather musculata, with leather shoulder doubling and pteruges, over a red tunic. Are those breeches or pteruges on his legs?
Thats from the tombstone of the legionary C. Valerius Crispus from Wiesbaden. Those segmented looking "shorts" could either be damage on the tombstone giving it the impression of beying somehow segmented or be interpreted as pteruges. Seems like the authors went for pteruges. The armor itself does look like leather in the pic, although looking at a foto of the tombstone it doesn't look to me necesserily as leather, but I'll wait for the arguments in the book. Ring mail seems to me quite plausible as well.
Pedro Pereira