03-26-2010, 09:12 PM
And the plot thickens... Here's an entry amalgamated from a number of inventory lists from the same building:
So, clearly leather cuirasses were in use in or before the mid-4th c. BC, but what follows this is unfortunately fragmentary, but tantalizing. One version of this inventory list, in a new entry after "thorakia skutina, IIII," reads "linou(n)" (linen), and another version, in which the portion with "linoun" is missing, reads "spoladion" right after where that word should be. It seems very likely that this read something like "linoun hen spoladion," or "one linen spoladion"... which would mean that the spolas (spoladion is the diminutive version of spolas) could be either leather or linen!
Quote:...Wooden shields, 7; piloi stuppinoi (still have to look up what stuppinos means), 7; daggers (lacuna); machaira, 1; leather cuirasses (thorakia), 4;
So, clearly leather cuirasses were in use in or before the mid-4th c. BC, but what follows this is unfortunately fragmentary, but tantalizing. One version of this inventory list, in a new entry after "thorakia skutina, IIII," reads "linou(n)" (linen), and another version, in which the portion with "linoun" is missing, reads "spoladion" right after where that word should be. It seems very likely that this read something like "linoun hen spoladion," or "one linen spoladion"... which would mean that the spolas (spoladion is the diminutive version of spolas) could be either leather or linen!
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
