Collection: Belts

Cingulum Militare (sometimes falsely called "Balteus")
A cingulum militare was a piece of ancient Roman military equipment in the form of a belt decorated with metal fittings, which was worn as a badge of rank by soldiers and officials. Many examples were made in the Roman province of Pannonia. This piece was used with a Helmet (Galea),a shield (Scutum) a piece of armor (Curias), a dagger (Puggio) and a sword (Gladius). 

Cingulum Militare with Pteryges (Pteruges)
Pteruges refers to the defensive skirt of leather or multi-layered fabric (linen) strips or lappets worn around the waists of Roman and Greek warriors and soldiers, as well as the similarly-fashioned epaulette-like strips worn on the shoulders, that protected the upper arms. Both sets of strips are usually interpreted as belonging to a single garment worn under a cuirass, though in a linen cuirass (linothorax) they may have been integral. The cuirass itself could be variously constructed: of plate-bronze (muscle cuirass), linothorax, scale, lamellar or mail. Pteruges could be arranged as a single row of longer strips or in two or more layers of shorter, overlapping lappets of graduated length.

Roman balteus
During ancient Roman times the balteus was a type of baldric commonly used to suspend a sword. It was a belt generally worn over the shoulder, passing obliquely down to the side, typically made of leather, often ornamented with precious stones, metals or both. There was also a similar belt worn by the Romans, particularly by soldiers, called a cintus that fastened around the waist. The word accintus meaning a soldier (literally, "girt" as for battle) attests to this differing usage.

Baldrick
A baldric (also baldrick) is a belt worn over one shoulder that is typically used to carry a weapon or other implement such as a bugle or drum. The word may also refer to any belt in general, but this usage is poetic or archaic.

Parts of the Roman belt:

• Baltea: This is the hanging band and was compounded for an overall band.
• Bulla: The rivets on the Baltea.
• Pensilium: The pendants at the end of the strap of the belt.
• Lamna: The discus at the end of each apron strip that embrace the pensilium.
• Fibula: The buckle of the belt.