09-07-2006, 01:54 PM
I think some of you are making something out of nothing. If those jewels are meant to represent "eyes", then why are they placed so high up on the helmet? All the other examples shown here in this thread (including the one posted by Uwe) have the eyes in a closer, more frontal location to the where the actual eyes of the helmet wearer would be.
The decorative differences on the front vs back on that Intercisa aren't definitively eyebrows at all..unless people had jewels placed in theirs as some kind of fashion. :wink: Seriously, I don't think they're made to represent eyes in the fashion that this thread was originally about. Like Robert said, they may have been inspired by real eyes, or maybe the decorative work was changed to help differentiate the front and the back. But it's definately not enough to go on to say that they were supposed to be eyes.
The decorative differences on the front vs back on that Intercisa aren't definitively eyebrows at all..unless people had jewels placed in theirs as some kind of fashion. :wink: Seriously, I don't think they're made to represent eyes in the fashion that this thread was originally about. Like Robert said, they may have been inspired by real eyes, or maybe the decorative work was changed to help differentiate the front and the back. But it's definately not enough to go on to say that they were supposed to be eyes.
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Magnus/Matt
Du Courage Viens La Verité
Legion: TBD
Magnus/Matt
Du Courage Viens La Verité
Legion: TBD
