07-18-2011, 04:49 AM
LOL!
"I like the cloth strap around your helmet's perimeter, what's the source of it?
Greetings No real source I'm afraid - just one of personal interpretation "
Just an additional comment- the medieval copies of the late 4th century De Rebus Bellicis in both the Oxford and both versions in the Munich copy show the cataphracts with this type of cloth strap around the helmet, with a matching strip on the spear.
Munich version 2 (the patron sent another copyist back to the original as he wasn't happy with the first version)
http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/...&seite=350
Munich version 1
http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/...?seite=150 (different illustrator)
Of course, the different copyists of De Rebus also put in lots of medieval details, so it is difficult to say what is original Roman and what is medieval additions- and indeed, most of the armour detail is medieval. But all three copyists seem to be agreed on this detail, which MAY (stress may) indicate it was on the original Late Roman manuscript copied. There is also a parallel in the Dura Europas clibanarius graffito. Again, this could be ribbons or a cloth strap with trailing streamers behind.
"I like the cloth strap around your helmet's perimeter, what's the source of it?
Greetings No real source I'm afraid - just one of personal interpretation "
Just an additional comment- the medieval copies of the late 4th century De Rebus Bellicis in both the Oxford and both versions in the Munich copy show the cataphracts with this type of cloth strap around the helmet, with a matching strip on the spear.
Munich version 2 (the patron sent another copyist back to the original as he wasn't happy with the first version)
http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/...&seite=350
Munich version 1
http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/...?seite=150 (different illustrator)
Of course, the different copyists of De Rebus also put in lots of medieval details, so it is difficult to say what is original Roman and what is medieval additions- and indeed, most of the armour detail is medieval. But all three copyists seem to be agreed on this detail, which MAY (stress may) indicate it was on the original Late Roman manuscript copied. There is also a parallel in the Dura Europas clibanarius graffito. Again, this could be ribbons or a cloth strap with trailing streamers behind.