Wearing the cloak
Subtitle: dressing the soldier in Roman times
By: edited by Marie-Louise Nosch
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford and Oakville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781842174371
Subjects: Equipment; Military antiquities; Army; Ancient Textile fabrics; Uniforms
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Dressed for the occasion : clothes and context in the Roman army / Michael Speidel; title: Purchase orders of military garments from papyri of Roman Egypt / Kerstin Dross-Krüpe; title: Clothing supply for the military : a look at the inscriptional evidence / Jinyu Liu; title: The Roman military belt / Stefanie Hoss; title: Linen-clad Etruscan warriors / Margarita Gleba; title: Fragments of linen from Masada, Israel : "the remnants of Pteryges" and related finds in weft- and warp-twining including several slings / Hero Granger Taylor; title: 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; title: Warrior costume in Iron Age weapon deposits / Susan Möller-Wiering; title: Painting a reconstruction of the Deir el-Medineh portrait on a painted shroud and other soldiers from Roman Egypt / Graham Sumner.