01-30-2012, 03:47 AM
Mike Bishop wrote:Here's one for arming doublet (aketon, subarmalis, thoracomachus etc etc) fans to debate. It is published in Robinson (Pl.244) but there is a bit more detail to drool over for the sword and dagger. I particularly like the cheeky upside-down brooch (archaeological illustrators will appreciate the ironies there). To aid the debate, I have included a colour key to explain alternative interpretations.
To further confuse things is the tombstone of the cavalryman Silius! (a very apt name considering) It shows his servant? wearing something similar to this but had some colour surviving on the tombstone. The main smooth garment was green and the zigzag fringe was red, there appeared to be little or nothing of a tunic visible. Perhaps given the cavalry context this is a subarmalis as described in the Carlisle writing tablet. Personally I think the subarmalis was more padded like in appearance and there are some examples in sculpture which I will post in a new thread for further discussion.
Otherwise I would have said that in Mike's key, green was the tunic, blue was the armour, possibly with subarmalis underneath and that red was the Robinson cover, perhaps in leather.
Graham.
To further confuse things is the tombstone of the cavalryman Silius! (a very apt name considering) It shows his servant? wearing something similar to this but had some colour surviving on the tombstone. The main smooth garment was green and the zigzag fringe was red, there appeared to be little or nothing of a tunic visible. Perhaps given the cavalry context this is a subarmalis as described in the Carlisle writing tablet. Personally I think the subarmalis was more padded like in appearance and there are some examples in sculpture which I will post in a new thread for further discussion.
Otherwise I would have said that in Mike's key, green was the tunic, blue was the armour, possibly with subarmalis underneath and that red was the Robinson cover, perhaps in leather.
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
