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Wearing the cloak : dressing the soldier in Roman times /

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 a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nosch, Marie-Louise
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oakville, Conn. : Oxbow Books ; David Brown Book Co., ©2012.
Colección:Ancient textiles series ; 10.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.