01-15-2007, 09:40 PM
Quote:If you look at the cavalryman in the back, on this photo, he seems to be wearing a strange kind of body armour. Anyone any idea what it is?
[url:10bxjb0b]http://www.archart.it/archart/europa/France/Orange%20-%20roman%20arch/image4.html[/url]
(I think it's scale)
....it looks like a scaleothorax...I wonder if it's one of those Etruscan designs that bridged the gap!
I've seen something similar on a Gaulish warrior before....can't remember where...
Would it be this....?
![[Image: etrusc29jz1.th.jpg]](http://img297.imageshack.us/my.php?image=etrusc29jz1.jpg:10bxjb0b)
Picture from this site...: http://www.truefork.org/Photography/Etruscan_Armour.php
Cristina
The Hoplite Association
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The enemy is less likely to get wind of an advance of cavalry, if the orders for march were passed from mouth to mouth rather than announced by voice of herald, or public notice. Xenophon
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The Hoplite Association
[url:n2diviuq]http://www.hoplites.org[/url]
The enemy is less likely to get wind of an advance of cavalry, if the orders for march were passed from mouth to mouth rather than announced by voice of herald, or public notice. Xenophon
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