05-13-2007, 11:19 PM
Without going into exhaustive research, several spring to mind from Macedonian tomb paintings-
1. The painted grave stele of a "companion" type cavalryman , shown with a uniform buff cuirass (type difficult to determine due to flaking) with buff pteruges -it is in the Greco-Roman museum Alexandria, and is illustrated in colour in "phillip of Macedon" numerous authors, published by Heinemann, London,1981
2. The famous "Lyson and Kallikles" tomb showing buff corselets/pteruges and painted helmets - widely illustrated e.g same source as above
3. The two left- hand two Macedonian soldiers from a relatively recently discovered frieze showing eight soldiers - 'Vergina tombs' by Dr Elizabeth Carney -this also illustrated on_line, but I don't have the refernce handy - no doubt google or other search engines will find it for you......
regards, Paullus Scipio/Paul McDonnell-Staff
1. The painted grave stele of a "companion" type cavalryman , shown with a uniform buff cuirass (type difficult to determine due to flaking) with buff pteruges -it is in the Greco-Roman museum Alexandria, and is illustrated in colour in "phillip of Macedon" numerous authors, published by Heinemann, London,1981
2. The famous "Lyson and Kallikles" tomb showing buff corselets/pteruges and painted helmets - widely illustrated e.g same source as above
3. The two left- hand two Macedonian soldiers from a relatively recently discovered frieze showing eight soldiers - 'Vergina tombs' by Dr Elizabeth Carney -this also illustrated on_line, but I don't have the refernce handy - no doubt google or other search engines will find it for you......
regards, Paullus Scipio/Paul McDonnell-Staff
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(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
(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