08-26-2007, 09:56 PM
Sorry Gioi, after 27 years, I can't recall exactly where the coin was illustrated. I do recall there were several different coins, all similar and that at least one other showed a rider with Pilos type helmet.
They show, on the left, a Hoplite facing right, in an 'on-guard' position being attacked by a persian rider who faces left, toward the Hoplite.
There is also 5th-4th century seal impression which shows an identical scene of an armoured Hoplite in crested helmet being attacked by a horseman in tube-and -yoke corselet, plumed Pilos helmet without cheekpieces, and parapleuridae thigh protection - the seal impression is in a private collection, but was illustrated in Seyrig "Cachets Achemenides" in Archaeologica Orientalia in Memoriam, Ernst Herzfield N.Y. 1952.
Another similar depiction is shown on a 4th century Anatolian Chalcedony, this time with the Hoplite wearing a plumed Pilos helmet. The Persian rider again has a tube-and-yoke corselet and parapleuridae, but this time has what appears to be a soft Persian tiara/cap. ( shown in J.H.S XLVIII (1928) pp153-157.
They show, on the left, a Hoplite facing right, in an 'on-guard' position being attacked by a persian rider who faces left, toward the Hoplite.
There is also 5th-4th century seal impression which shows an identical scene of an armoured Hoplite in crested helmet being attacked by a horseman in tube-and -yoke corselet, plumed Pilos helmet without cheekpieces, and parapleuridae thigh protection - the seal impression is in a private collection, but was illustrated in Seyrig "Cachets Achemenides" in Archaeologica Orientalia in Memoriam, Ernst Herzfield N.Y. 1952.
Another similar depiction is shown on a 4th century Anatolian Chalcedony, this time with the Hoplite wearing a plumed Pilos helmet. The Persian rider again has a tube-and-yoke corselet and parapleuridae, but this time has what appears to be a soft Persian tiara/cap. ( shown in J.H.S XLVIII (1928) pp153-157.
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff