Roman Legionary Infantrymen
URSARIENSES LEGIO Comitatenses, GALLIA, 451 A. D. The Ursarienses were a Statutory Comitatenses (ie belonging to the mobile army, the comitatus) of the late empire, this man is from Legio III Italica according to Notitia dignitatum, under the command of the Magister equitum infra Gallias. The legionaries were protected by cuirabolli curiass, wore tunics decorated with orbicoli and clavi, and…
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