02-25-2009, 01:55 AM
Kineas/Christian wrote:
It's an illusion ! It's just that we have debated the evidence in regard to the Tube-and-Yoke corselet several times here on RAT, so it is all familiar territory, and apart from the Macedonian tomb evidence ( see separate thread on same) there isn't anything new........ :wink:
Quote:It appears that stage masks were actually made by laying up layers of linen with glue. Now, there's no reason to believe that this was water proof or good armour, but it does, at the very least, suggest that a technology for laying up linen with glue existed and was practiced in period. If pushed, I could even provide a citation.......I think I would challenge this idea......it stems from Peter Connolly again! ( p.98 " The Ancient City" Connolly and Dodge). We don't know what the masks were made from, since none survive.....I've had this discussion with someone a while back, and it seems that what evidence there is points more to a 'papier mache' type of construction rather than glued layers.....
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Cole
It's an illusion ! It's just that we have debated the evidence in regard to the Tube-and-Yoke corselet several times here on RAT, so it is all familiar territory, and apart from the Macedonian tomb evidence ( see separate thread on same) there isn't anything new........ :wink:
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"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
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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
