04-03-2009, 02:13 PM
This picture came up in discussion a while ago, and I've run across an large high resolution example of it in the public domain on wikimedia commons:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... vre_G1.jpg
Its by the Andokides painter, its in the Louvre, and dates to 530 BCE, and was found in an Etruscan context in Vulci.
Paul, its worth a little discussion in light of our parallel conversation on the Boiotian shield. Here the fox crested hoplite's opponent has a a Boiotian shield.
I believe it is safe to say your opinion is that we have no archeological evidence for it, its just heroic representation, and doesn't represent a real artifact.
That being the case, the same is true of the fox crest.
Cole
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... vre_G1.jpg
Its by the Andokides painter, its in the Louvre, and dates to 530 BCE, and was found in an Etruscan context in Vulci.
Paul, its worth a little discussion in light of our parallel conversation on the Boiotian shield. Here the fox crested hoplite's opponent has a a Boiotian shield.
I believe it is safe to say your opinion is that we have no archeological evidence for it, its just heroic representation, and doesn't represent a real artifact.
That being the case, the same is true of the fox crest.
Cole
Cole
