03-14-2006, 07:00 PM
Quote:This is our old friend Marcus Favonius Facilis in the museum of Colchester. I've seen this up wonderful piece close and personal, and as I recall, the surface of his cuirass is very lightly textured to indicate mail. It's definitely a hamata with the lower edge "scooped" in imitation of a muscle cuirass.
Thanks!
Presumably an anatomical waistline indicates a desire to emulate a musculata.
So we have yet MORE evidence that the musculata is a class, not a type, and quoted far and wide.
The musculata remains the thorniest type of armor I know.
Thanks again!!
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