Lorica segmentata: preface

Lorica segmentata: preface

Soon I am going to publish some articles about Lorica segmentata, a Renaissance term because at this moment the Roman name is not know. This type of armour was an articulated laminated or laminar armour (metal strips fashioned into circular bands), usually identifies the Roman Legionnaire. I will fix my old translations updating them with new content.

The manufacture of chain-mail

The manufacture of chain-mail

Pieces from five different mail-shirts have been examined, all dating to the Late pre-Roman Iron Age and the Roman Iron Age. They are an excellent object for studying technological development from the Iron Age to the Middle Ages (Available in the Italian Section).

First draft of a performance

First draft of a performance

In August 2003 I have written a draft of the show, that has been represented by GAV milites group to the Ludi Savarienses festival that it is hold every year in Szombathely city (Hungary). It follows the complete text of the show with a brief introduction.

Presence to a congress

Presence to a congress

In summer 2002 I have participated as a speaker in the 4th International Congress of Experimental Archaeology: "LET'S REDISCOVER THE LIFE OF ANCIENT ROMAN", developed during the usual Roman village festival. It follows a summary description of the experience and the introduced relationship.

Tunic color debate

Tunic color debate

It follows a series of pictorials, materials, literaries and practices evidences on two different theories about the color of tunic: the first one believes that both the soldiers wore under the armor tunics dyed red, the second instead it sustains that the legionaries had white tunics (undyed), while officers and centuriones red (Available in the Italian Section).

Japanese trip

Japanese trip

In 2002 I had the luck and the honour to represent the GAV (Villadose Archaeological Group) in the stand of the Rovigo provincial administration at 25th Osaka International Trade Fair. It follows a summary description of the adventure in Japanese earth and of the stand's preparation, everything accompanied by photos and meaningful articles.

De Legione Romana goes to Drupal

De Legione Romana goes to Drupal

This virtual space is a porting of De Legione Romana site to Drupal, a powerful and stable content management system. Originally I created it using Cutenews, an easy-to-use news management system that uses flat files to store its database. Ten years ago it was an early and simple CMS, but it was abandoned and today it is obsolete and easily spam-attackable.

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