08-06-2007, 09:13 PM
Recently I saw the picture below (it is from Osprey New Vanguard "Ancient Greek Warship" p. 15), from an Attic krater of about 480.
My foto is bad, I have to explain it: if you could see something you would see the pleated chiton below the armour, a pleated false sleeve on the right arm, a plain false sleeve on the left arm.
I can only interprete it as a proof for Giannis' opinion, that the upper part of the pleated chiton could be shown plain. I don't know why the artist chose the different depiction. But it must be just one chiton because the hoplite was hardly wearing a hypothorax or thick undergarment only on his left side.
I'm still thinking that the three warriors on the first picture of Giannis wear some sort of jerkins, but many bulky plain upper parts seem just to be the strangely depicted chitons itself.
My foto is bad, I have to explain it: if you could see something you would see the pleated chiton below the armour, a pleated false sleeve on the right arm, a plain false sleeve on the left arm.
I can only interprete it as a proof for Giannis' opinion, that the upper part of the pleated chiton could be shown plain. I don't know why the artist chose the different depiction. But it must be just one chiton because the hoplite was hardly wearing a hypothorax or thick undergarment only on his left side.
I'm still thinking that the three warriors on the first picture of Giannis wear some sort of jerkins, but many bulky plain upper parts seem just to be the strangely depicted chitons itself.
Wolfgang Zeiler
