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Pretty neat. I'd like to see more of this kind of stuff. I like those peltast style shields. Can you recommend anyone that sells or makes phrygian style hemets like the one your friend has in the picture?
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I have to agree with Theo. There aren't enough Thracian impressions here. I'd love to see more come out of the woodwork. Kudos to Stephan and crew! 8)
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You'll recruit more reenactors with promises of abducting maidens than cutting throats. 8)
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Those are very cool pictures. The caps: are they felt, or woven cloth sewn together?
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In the second picture the archer is drawing his bow while wearing his shield. Was that common usage?
I'd think it would be terribly awkward. Certainly hard to sustain.
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I really like your blonde hairdo in your pictures, Gianni. :wink: :lol:
Fox fur cap?
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Didn't the Thracians dye their hair blue? :?
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Nono,this must have been some other peoples. This is an alopeke (fox fur) indeed. It is known that the Thracians wore the alopeke,but in some vases the tail looks not like a fox tail. More like a raccoon tail,to be honest,with alternating fair and darker lines!
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Thanks for sharing this photos
hock: you make my day!
Guys you are looking AWESOME in this Thracian performance!
Some of our historian disagree about that Thracian had pelte shields but I think cultures from the different civilizations mixed so much so no one can say for certain!
Giannis, very nice foxy head! Good achievement!
My congratulation for your ideas!
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Great photos! Interesting to see you have re-created one of the scenes in my book, based on Xenophon's night attack of the Thyni (incidentally I now realise that building should be rectangular, not circular) - do you think it was possible to knock the heads off the spears with a club?
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Quote:More like a raccoon tail
Is there an East European variety of the raccoon?
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