05-15-2007, 04:31 PM
Quote:Sorry for double posting but I'm not able to write along after attaching pictures to a post. :?
I have two questions to Giannis:
1. Could you give me informations about one of your posted pictures, with the four Makedonian warriors? I'm very interested because i.a. it shows warriors with boots and bare feet both together. Where is it from and what time is it - late 4th or 3rd century?
It's from a tomb uncovered in 1994 in Aghios Athanasios and is believed to date to the late 4th century BC. Of the eight warriors, only one is barefooted, and all the rest wear sturdy lacework boots.
Quote:This is where we need a chemist with the right experience of analysing ancient frescoes Wink
I'd say the left helmet's upper bowl is copper, but its cheek pieces are bronze (there's a difference in the colours). This could mean that the greaves are copper, yes, and I don't see why not. To take it out of the Greek period, there has been a verified Roman helmet where the cheek pieces are cast copper, and the bowl copper. Later, but ancient.
In this case, I think you are relying on poor photographs to judge colours. I have some very high quality photographs that I can post that show the colours much better. The bowl of the leftmost helmet is an entirely different colour from the greaves and is very red. It is exactly the same colour as one of the two painted bands on the other helmet, so it follows logically that it was painted as well.
Quote:Giannis posted this interesting pic:
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o118 ... friez3.jpg
What strikes me is that the left hand cuirass is a pinkish shade, which is the same colour as the bottom of the wearer's cloak. I don't think it's a wild suggestion that the cuirass is therefore textile. Also, didn't the Etruscans steal one of the linen Egyptian cuirasses?
It's purple, not pink, and yes, I suggested this before- all the cloaks worn by the men in this painting are yellowish brown with a purple band running along the bottom edge which is exactly the same colour as their cuirasses, perhaps suggesting they are both textile.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
