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Curious Celtic Rider - Caturix - 10-09-2009
Found this iconography, and I'm very puzzled.
It's probably a fragmnet of a lucerna lamp, but dunno where it come from and wich time is dated.
Second... WHY the sword is suspended on the LEFT?
![[Image: fg_48_7032.jpg]](http://www.celticworld.it/immagini/ad_img/fgallery/fg_48_7032.jpg)
Re: Curious Celtic Rider - The Alexandrian - 10-09-2009
I've never seen it before, but it looks cool
hock: As for the sword being suspended on the left side, I wonder if that was a custom that varied from region to region?
Re: Curious Celtic Rider - MeinPanzer - 10-09-2009
Quote:Found this iconography, and I'm very puzzled.
It's probably a fragmnet of a lucerna lamp, but dunno where it come from and wich time is dated.
Second... WHY the sword is suspended on the LEFT?
I don't have the information at hand right now, but this is IIRC a 1st c. AD moulded lamp from somewhere in northern or central Europe. As for the sword being worn on the left, I don't think that it was a hard or fast rule, and we see Celts wearing swords on the left occasionally in art.
Re: Curious Celtic Rider - Justin of the New Yorkii - 10-09-2009
If you're right-handed, wouldn't it be easier to pull the sword out with it suspended on the left?
Seems like if it were on the right, you'd have to flip the sword over in your hand in order to to get it right-side-up.
Re: Curious Celtic Rider - Dain II. - 10-09-2009
Latene D from the Magdalensberg in Carinthia, Austria.
You can find a bigger image in :"Kelten - Bilder ihrer Kultur" from Helmut Birkhan, Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, ISBN 3-7001-2814-2, site 211, object 275, German-English-Edition. If you like I can sent you a scan of the image.
Maybe he (Celt, Germanic, whatever) is wearing the sword at the right because he is a rider?
Stephan
Re: Curious Celtic Rider - PhilusEstilius - 10-10-2009
There is of course the idea that the artist may simply be alluding to the fact that the rider is wearing a sword for the direction of travel is to the left and it would not be shown otherwise.
Re: Curious Celtic Rider - Alanus - 10-17-2009
Here's a warped thought.
How do we know he was a "curious Celtic rider?"
Perhaps he was a dullard and never questioned anything. :lol: