06-24-2010, 08:52 PM
Quote:Isn't the fellow in the image of the Paullus monument below with the aspis-ish shield mounted?
No, he's just in the background. Hellenistic artists often rendered depth of field strangely, so that figures sometimes appear to float above others, when they are meant to be behind them.
Quote:You mention one of the sarissaphoroi's peltae has a "rim". There is a fellow at the far left who as avery small rim, but I wonder if you are thinking of the righthand man in the pair on the left. I once thought that this was a rim too, but a better image, which I don't have with me, shows that this is an illusion caused by wear on the line that should be the outer curve of the shield. With that curve obscured, what you are looking at is the decorative semicircle, not the outer face, See below:
I'm working from the original publication of this drawing, as found in Altertuemer von Pergamon I, and I don't see the bulge you as you draw it. What is the source of your better quality image? I can re-scan the original if you'd like, or perhaps you can scan your copy?
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
