04-22-2007, 05:47 PM
Quote:I'm no sculpture expert, but ... isn't it suspicious that there's a hem-line at the waist, but nothing at the collar or shoulder?
If the sculpture had been broken a metre (?) higher up, we'd presume that it was naked.
![[Image: Cuirassed_torso.jpg]](http://hometown.aol.co.uk/DBC633/Cuirassed_torso.jpg)
Quote:Also,isn't that a broken penis?However,they have painted all the place under the hem line...it seems they cannot be trusted
The sculpture and the general reconstruction is reliable (i.e. the pattern on the tunic underneath), it's just a matter of which of why they have two different reconstructions. As you can see from many of the other sculptures on show in the Bunte Götter exhibit, hem-lines and edges of clothing or equipment were often simply painted in. Also, it does appear that some "nude" sculptures actually had clothes painted over them, even with genitalia exposed!
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
