"A new model of Roman saddle construction" Topic
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Tango01 | 19 Apr 2021 10:00 p.m. PST |
"There are no Roman cavalry saddles surviving intact today. Depictions of them can be found on statues and monuments — grand reliefs like that cavalry battle on the Mausoleum of the Julii in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (the two in southern France where Vincent van Gogh painted The Starry Night during his stay in the local asylum) as well as modest gravestones like that of Lucius Romanus, a Roman cavalryman of Illyrian origin who died while serving in what is now Cologne — so we know what they looked like. The iconography shows that Roman saddles consisted of a padded seat with four horns, two in front projecting to the sides over the rider's thighs, and two straight ones behind the rider supporting the buttocks. The horns served to distribute the weight of the rider away from the horse's spine to its flanks in an era before stirrups. Because archaeological remains of saddles have so far been limited to metal horn plates and fragments of leather from the cover, the construction framework of the Roman cavalry saddle is still up for debate…"
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Armand |
LORDGHEE | 19 Apr 2021 10:49 p.m. PST |
a gent in the 1980 remade a Macedonian saddle. it had horns which gripped well. it was publish in an English military modeling magazine in the 1980's , they gave it to a jousting society who used it. horns gripped well but stirrups allow one to lean over and use the sword to thrust to the ground.. I believe from memory that this was a Masters project also. |
Tango01 | 20 Apr 2021 12:57 p.m. PST |
Interesting… thanks!. Armand |
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