08-29-2010, 12:29 AM
"thought to come from Mesopotamia" sounds to me like a guess about an un-provenanced piece, and that appears to be all we have, and evidently Seyrig must have similarly supposed/guessed it to be 'Syrian' (Seleucid) if he discussed it under "Antiquites Syriennes".
It would appear that this piece, and its similar companion piece are 'origin unknown' and that the Louvre itself has gone with a 'best guess' of Syria.
Incidently, if the tubular arm defences are like those of the Pergamum relief, then they are unlikely to be of metal, having no elbow joints and having a sort of 'folded under' construction in part - at a guess they will have been leather.....
It would appear that this piece, and its similar companion piece are 'origin unknown' and that the Louvre itself has gone with a 'best guess' of Syria.
Incidently, if the tubular arm defences are like those of the Pergamum relief, then they are unlikely to be of metal, having no elbow joints and having a sort of 'folded under' construction in part - at a guess they will have been leather.....
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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
