01-25-2016, 02:41 PM
At the end of Raffaele D'Amato's new Osprey book, Imperial Roman Warships 27BC-193AD (sic!) there's an image of what the text calls 'part of a marine's leather subarmale from the Augustean levels of the San Rossore ships'.
This is from the excavation of the ancient harbour at Pisa. On the following page (not shown in online preview) there's a reconstruction drawing of the proposed garment as a leather jerkin with a fastening at the neck.
I can't find anything else online (in English anyway) about this item. Lentini's essay on textile and leather finds from the site doesn't mention it (or any other leather stuff, despite the title!)
Does anyone know more? And are there any similarities between this piece and other supposed fragments of leather garments found at (I think) Carnuntum?
This is from the excavation of the ancient harbour at Pisa. On the following page (not shown in online preview) there's a reconstruction drawing of the proposed garment as a leather jerkin with a fastening at the neck.
I can't find anything else online (in English anyway) about this item. Lentini's essay on textile and leather finds from the site doesn't mention it (or any other leather stuff, despite the title!)
Does anyone know more? And are there any similarities between this piece and other supposed fragments of leather garments found at (I think) Carnuntum?
Nathan Ross
