05-13-2007, 11:27 PM
I made up a whole list but something went wrong when I tried to post it and it was all lost :x .
On the last one, if you mean the Aghios Athanasios tomb, those two men are wearing entirely purple cuirasses, not white/buff/brownish. But to add to your list:
Many Southern and Central Italian tomb paintings show soldiers wearing white and off-white cuirasses.
Several Ptolemaic stelai show off-white, buff, and brownish cuirasses.
There is a soldier from the 4th C. BC Lefkadia tomb shown with a white and red cuirass.
Quote: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
On the last one, if you mean the Aghios Athanasios tomb, those two men are wearing entirely purple cuirasses, not white/buff/brownish. But to add to your list:
Many Southern and Central Italian tomb paintings show soldiers wearing white and off-white cuirasses.
Several Ptolemaic stelai show off-white, buff, and brownish cuirasses.
There is a soldier from the 4th C. BC Lefkadia tomb shown with a white and red cuirass.
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
