12-05-2012, 06:44 PM
Quote:Sure Markus, could be also from as horse armour. The Legion in Potaissa was the Leg V Macedonia, being from 166 - 274 in Potaissa. As seen in Wikipedia they have fought as a mobile cavalry unit the campaign against Ingenuus in 260.well as it happens i am romanian and i was very interested in this piece, i planed to go to turda this summer unfortunatelly the museum was closed
The following link is from the local museum. If I translate the text with an online translator, it just says: "The fragment shows the neck over the shoulder neckline and slightly back", which sounds for me to be human used. The size of the scales may give a hint, but this is missing in the short text. Maybe someone has one of the mentioned books?
http://muzeu-turda.cimec.ro/Exponatulvir...fault.aspx
the website explains the things as such:
Din această categorie face parte şi o bucată dintr-o cămaşă de zale, lorica squamata, cu aproape 3000 de solzi din bronz. Fragmentul reprezintă partea de peste umeri cu răscroiala la gât şi puţin din spate. Faptul că s-a conservat ţesătura din pânză de in a dat posibilitatea studierii modalităţii în care şiragurile de solzi de bronz se coseau în suportul textil. ...
Bibliografie:
Mihai Bărbulescu, Din istoria militară a Daciei romane. Legiunea V Macedonica şi castrul de la Potaissa, Cluj-Napoca, 1987;
this will translate as:
From the aboved mentioned category we have a part of an scale mail, lorica squamata, with almost 3000 scales made of bronze. The fragment represents the shoulder part with the neckline as well as a little part from the back. The fact that the linen canvas was conserved allowed the possibility to study the modality trough wich lenghts of scales were sew on the canvas....
I have read the book as well unforunatelly there is not much more to find in it
maybe i will be able to visit the museum when i will be arround this winter, I am living in Germany,
if i can get more info i will poste it here