09-05-2006, 01:13 PM
Quote:Actually mate, I have to disagree with you there for once. I honestly think that the "eyes", being flat ovals, with an arrangement above them in an arc represent eyes and eyebrows. The different orientation of the rear corresponding jewels tell me they are not meant to represent eyes, which in itself is a telling thing about the ones on the front. Why not just make them symmetrical?
If the Berkasovo I indeed is meant to have eyes on the front, it would be unique. But because the similar jewels on the Budapest helmet lack similar ‘eyebrows’, I doubt very much if those on the Berkasovo need to represent eyes. I mean, if you disqualify the jewels on the back as eyes, those on the Budapest aren’t eyes either.
Robert Vermaat
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MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
