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05/18/2025

Beautiful armor characteristic of quality French harnesses circa 1560-1580 ❤️

05/18/2025

Beautiful armor characteristic of quality French harnesses circa 1560-1580. ❤️

05/13/2025

Beautifully reproduced Roman armor.

This armor belongs to Iago Rodriguez Diaz, a Roman cavalry officer.

He proudly wears a beautifully recreated Xanten cavalry helmet, complete with a large, three-dimensional image of the emperor and a Nijmegen face mask.

Additionally, he wears a lorica musculata, a muscled cuirass made of the finest steel, possibly with a tinned surface for added luster.

Picture: Emilio Romanos

12/17/2024

A centurion (right) and his deputy, the optio (left). They are holding their badge of office: the staff for the optio, a vine-stick for the centurion. This image was featured in Ancient Warfare's 2010 special, all about the Roman centuria: https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/products/the-roman-imperial-centuria-special?_pos=6&_sid=cd23b9a19&_ss=r

12/01/2024

Really great looking Roman helmet.👍

So, check this out! There’s this incredible bronze gladiator helmet that was found back in 2009 in the “Gladiators’ Barracks” at Pompeii. It’s been around for almost 2,000 years! This helmet belonged to a murmillo, which is a type of gladiator known for its cool fish-shaped headgear. It’s got some really fancy engravings, showing off just how skilled the Roman armor makers were.
Now, when you think about a murmillo in action, picture them decked out in a loincloth, a belt, s…

07/28/2024

Beautiful reconstruction. 👍

Lorica squamata, or scaled armor, was one of the three main armor types worn by the average Roman legionary, the other two being hamata (the most common) and segmentata (the most iconic). Please note that a full, intact set of lorica squamata has never been recovered from a Roman battle site, and this piece likely consists of scales picked from many different finds used to reconstruct a whole. This was almost certainly not found in its current state. This leads to the theory that squamata was not as commonly used as its more commonly found counterparts.

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05/21/2024

Just too beautiful. Craftsmanship at it's highest.

Breastplate Armor of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1549.

05/17/2023

Beautiful parade armor.
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„Hercules” armor of emperor Maximilian II, 1555

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01/07/2023

Beautiful armor. It is so amazing how much craftsmanship there was in earlier times.

Troy at the British Museum, London