05-22-2019, 08:03 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-22-2019, 08:25 AM by Crispianus.)
(05-21-2019, 10:47 PM)Sean Manning Wrote: Its on the list between Gordion, Turkey and Vize/Bizye, Turkey.
Just an observation on the Dura finds, there is a fairly large corpus of leather items from the site though it hasn't been published as such to my knowledge other then items on the yale site:
71 items in this search but there are I believe more in other museum collections...
https://artgallery.yale.edu/collection/s...%20leather
449 items...
https://artgallery.yale.edu/collection/s...a%20bronze
23 items...
https://artgallery.yale.edu/collection/s...ura%20iron
No actual leather scales...
https://artgallery.yale.edu/collection/s...%20leather
2 items of leather armour...
https://artgallery.yale.edu/collection/s...lar%20dura
Given that none of these appear to be leather scale armour other then the leg defences? (which could be Sassanian given the location) is it at least possible that the Romans (or any others at Dura) were not using purely leather scale armour since there are apparantly no other finds at Dura, where given the reasonably good survival rate for leather and the large amounts of scale armour found you may expect to find some....
The site in recent years has been robbed out by the way so it seems unlikely anything new will surface....
Not Written in Stone
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
