Una cuestión a debate: la lorica segmentata en las fronteras orientales del imperio romano

Abstract

This paper, after a deep revision of the evidences and available sources, proposes a series of arguments that show the inadequacy of Roman plate armour, better known as lorica segmentata, to the theaters of operations of the oriental border of the Empire. To these arguments it can be added the almost total absence (with a single exception) of segmentata finds in these provinces of the Roman East. Although it is not a decisive argument, these absences suppose an important drawback to those theories that defend a massive employment of this armour type along the whole Empire.