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Linothorax vs Quilted linen vs spolas
Quote:I doubt we'll ever know what colours were used to represent. I doubt there was even a standard that all artists adhered to. It is impossible to look at an illustration and determine the material an item was made from unless there are a large number of illustrations done by the same artist, and even then, that convention would only apply to that particular artist.

Well, in these cases (having re-examined the paintings), we can definitely say that the lamellar armour is not iron, because iron objects in the same paintings (swords, spearheads) are greyish-blue. I guess you could argue that the colour of the cuirass was meant to represent tin or silver, but the colour is really much more of a cream colour (one guy wearing such a cuirass wears it over a bright white tunic, and the difference in colour is clear). In all the examples I've seen, the lamellar plates and pteruges are exactly the same colour. Then again, on one depiction from the "Ramtha Hucznai" sarcophagus, a man carries a hoplite's shield with a similarly-coloured porpax, but that is the only example of an object that one would expect to be metallic being this colour on the whole extensive amazonomachy scene on the sarcophagus.
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
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Re: Linothorax vs Quilted linen vs spolas - by MeinPanzer - 03-22-2009, 07:05 AM

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