11-13-2015, 12:14 PM
(11-12-2015, 03:15 PM)panairjdde Wrote: [quote pid='332590' dateline='1447340859']
The helmet should be based on the Santa Maggiore mosaics and/or on the Richborough find; I don't know about cuirass; the thoracomacus should be based on the De Rebus Bellicis miniatures, and is/should be a long and padded subarmalis.
My question is, are there any other sources for such kind of thoracomacus?
The sources for the helmet are immensely sketchy so that's 75% pure speculation.
De material from DRB is later Medieval and no conclusions can be drawn as to the detail of the thoracomachus/Libyan hide as described in that source. I'm with those who think that DRB describes a common subarmalis, which may have existed is several shapes and forms.
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)