Hi @Potator,
Maybe a strange idea, but could'nt
that be a gauntlet ? It's a
legionary..
See
Google images, eg
http://images.google.nl/images?um=1&hl=nl&q=Roman+armour+gauntletsFor me this is speculatoin. Only
medieval examples, I actually don't know if these large metal gloves existed in
Roman times, or were
part of (Gladiator) armour (?)
Of course
Pietas does not wear armour. As for Otacilia above, I found references in
CoinArchives that
Pietas holds a perfume
bottle in her right hand.
This is not an
attribution (
reverse lettering differs) but this
coin shows a similar ''hand'', the
French author of the description refers to it as a
bottle of incense. The elongated shaped incense
bottle is standing upright in the hand, seems to be a finger.
Dupondius. Similaire au précédent, le buste sur un croissant. Rv.
PIETAS AVGVSTAE / S-C
Pietas, vêtue d'un
chiton long, debout de
face, la tête voilée tournée à g.; de la gauche, elle tient une boîte à encens, la droite est levée. 8,20 g.
RIC 94, 205c. C. 33.
RareSource of the image:
Hess 2007Lx