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Very nice description of the Thespians.
Except the black cloack staff seem to be there only for marketing.
Seem Christos Giannopoulos did the design.
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Depended on his finances Gioi. It could range from grey unbleached clothes to white chiton with purple decoration. Black was a possibility but not uniform colour. As I said before Army issue brown or gray heavy blanket can reanct the campaign cloack nicely.
Leather pilos from dog skin for purists!!
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Scorpio was Spartan but yet we have not identify the area of the unit.
The crest seems personal emblem to me and it seems to be a fox.
The cuirass of the guy with the fox crest is interesting. A spollas may be?
The leather pilos was made like the "Phrugic" cup.
I own a red central Greece pilos from felt. It was possibly in the same design.
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Heroes in pottery are depicted with elaborate crests and crest boxes.
In the Archaic period this might be the mark of a wealthy noble individual but in the Classic era it was the mark of the war leader-general.
Spartans used the traverse crest but other city states used more elaborate decorattion for the Generals.
Hight Crest were more the making of officers or file leaders.
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Gioi! WHERE is that shot from? *Drools*
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Quote:Gioi! WHERE is that shot from? *Drools*
Alexander..... :roll: :lol:
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Quote:Ela! Stefanos, here a boeotian warrior, with boots of two pieces.
He seems to be wearing sandals with a 'legging' on the left leg, but I can't see one on the right... :?
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/C ... img332.jpg
And another high cavalry boots, I was intriging about the cloth hat, look phrygian but is not.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/C ... img330.jpg [/quote]
It is rather interesting.....reminds me of those things people wear in the desert...stops the neck from burning....
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Thanks Gioi. That adds to my argument on "Greek footwear" that The Oidipus cylix shows Beotian boots.
The laurels on Pilos are not just for glory in war. They mark the person as a Pythia winner (Pythionikos). This is one of the stele of the Battle of Delio period that exist in Lamia meuseum.
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Eduardo Guillen sent me the picture of the crest, but I needed Stefanos' help to get it posted here.
Eduardo has done it the way I would have, but I've since seen one made out of two brass plates back-to-back for the stem, which produces a very slimline look.
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(if you plan to reply, I think this is one for the chat-room!)
