07-13-2008, 09:26 PM
Getting back to Javier's lovely shield,
A sculptural block from the foundation of St Mark's in Venice is decorated with high relief representations of typically Macedonian arms, including a circular life-size shield decorated with a starburst symbol , a long spear, a pair of greaves and a kopis.
In 1998 Eugenio Polito, an Italian academic expert on Greek and Roman armaments, identified this relief as typical of the decoration of high status Macedonian tombs in a monograph entitled Fulgentibus Armis. Polito dated the sculpture to the late 3rd century BC. However, in 2004 Andrew Chugg published the hypothesis that the body identified as St Mark the Evangelist, which was shipped to Venice from Alexandria in the early ninth century, might actually be the remains of Alexander the Great.
All very interesting but you can see the stone relief here:
[url:2dn6y6ks]http://www.davecullen.com/forum/index.php?topic=26820.1740[/url]
A sculptural block from the foundation of St Mark's in Venice is decorated with high relief representations of typically Macedonian arms, including a circular life-size shield decorated with a starburst symbol , a long spear, a pair of greaves and a kopis.
In 1998 Eugenio Polito, an Italian academic expert on Greek and Roman armaments, identified this relief as typical of the decoration of high status Macedonian tombs in a monograph entitled Fulgentibus Armis. Polito dated the sculpture to the late 3rd century BC. However, in 2004 Andrew Chugg published the hypothesis that the body identified as St Mark the Evangelist, which was shipped to Venice from Alexandria in the early ninth century, might actually be the remains of Alexander the Great.
All very interesting but you can see the stone relief here:
[url:2dn6y6ks]http://www.davecullen.com/forum/index.php?topic=26820.1740[/url]
Peter Raftos
