11-01-2016, 01:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-01-2016, 01:58 PM by Crispianus.)
(11-01-2016, 12:42 PM)JaM Wrote:(11-01-2016, 12:29 PM)Paul Bardunias Wrote: I think it is a leather Spolas. That is not a nipple! Unless this was Ptolemy's grandmother's armor! It is a stylized tie-down for the epomide.
What do we think, is that skirt a separate garment? I wonder if they can tell from the statue.
if its leather, why using two leather belts around it? plus, below the lower one, are perforated ornaments. not something you would wanna do to the leather armor i guess..
My main reason to think this is not metal cuirass is that there are no hindges or joins on the visible right hand side, a metal one would have to have a joint, otherwise you couldn't open it!... and considering that very fine details are visible it would seem odd not to include it.
The decoration below the belt could be embossed or engraved Leather or Metal.... so it's not proof of anything by itself...
"The belts on the two armored riders serve no practical purpose and have been correctly associated with the “Persian girdle” worn by Alexander the Great (Diodorus, Bibliotheke17.77.5; Plutarch, Alkibiades 51.5). Through portrayals
of the Diadochoi it was adopted by the Romans who used it (cingulum) to indicate that the wearer held an official post."
https://www.academia.edu/12212733/G._Kou...2015_72-81
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
