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Title Wearing the cloak : dressing the soldier in Roman times / edited by Marie-Louise Nosch
Published Oxford : Oxbow Books ; Oakville, Conn. : David Brown Book Co., ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 144 pages :) : illustrations (some color), maps
Series Ancient textiles series ; v. 10
Ancient textiles series ; 10.
Contents Dressed for the occasion : clothes and context in the Roman army / Michael Speidel -- Purchase orders of military garments from papyri of Roman Egypt / Kerstin Dross-Krüpe -- Clothing supply for the military : a look at the inscriptional evidence / Jinyu Liu -- The Roman military belt / Stefanie Hoss -- Linen-clad Etruscan warriors / Margarita Gleba -- Fragments of linen from Masada, Israel : "the remnants of Pteryges" and related finds in weft- and warp-twining including several slings / Hero Granger Taylor -- A late Roman painting of an Egyptian officer and the layers of its perception on the relation between images and textile finds / Annette Paetzgen Schieck -- Warrior costume in Iron Age weapon deposits / Susan Möller-Wiering -- Painting a reconstruction of the Deir el-Medineh portrait on a painted shroud and other soldiers from Roman Egypt / Graham Sumner
Summary Wearing the Cloak contains nine stimulating chapters on Roman military textiles and equipment that take textile research to a new level. Hear the sounds of the Roman soldiers' clacking belts and get a view on their purchase orders with Egyptian weavers. Could armour be built of linen? Who had access to what kinds of prestigious equipment? And what garments and weapons were deposited in bogs at the edge of the Roman Empire? The authors draw upon multiple sources such as original textual and scriptural evidence, ancient works of art and iconography and archaeological records and finds. The chapt
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Subject Textile fabrics, Ancient.
HISTORY -- Military -- General.
HISTORY / Ancient / Rome
Antiquities
Armed Forces -- Equipment and supplies
Armed Forces -- Uniforms
Textile fabrics, Ancient
SUBJECT Rome -- Army -- Uniforms. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010015414
Rome -- Army -- Equipment. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010015394
Rome -- Military antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115175
Subject Rome (Empire)
Form Electronic book
Author Nosch, Marie-Louise
LC no. 2011044900
ISBN 9781842176955
1842176951