03-22-2009, 01:59 AM
Quote:Quote:Etruscan & punic armour take the sacrad band "Iron armour "Ok what type unknown !,
For what my opinion is worth, I had to consider this when I was writing the AW article on Bagradas, I think the iron armour was lamellar like the Etruscan example above. Such armour was more popular in the near east than it was in Greece, so it made sense to me that the Etruscans adopted it from their close contacts with Carthage.
All the colour depictions we have of Etruscan lamellar armour like that of the Mars Todi show the plates as off-white in colour. Whatever they may be made of, iron seems unlikely.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
