02-04-2009, 07:41 AM
Quote:Hi Steven,
egfroth:34t0kp5r Wrote:I've got a slightly better copy of this representation and close inspection shows a (very worn) pattern of rings, suggesting to me that it's a mail shirt.Do you think all the armoured figures in the center register wear mail shirts ? Or only Goliath ?
I thought the one on the extreme left might be wearing a scale shirt.
~Theo
Do you mean the two armoured figures in http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/mu ... hm0632.jpg ? If so, yes, both have the same pattern of small rings, which I interpret as mail, though I acknowledge they could be meant to represent scale.
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The Strategikon of Emperor Maurice
Steven Lowe
Australia
The Strategikon of Emperor Maurice
Steven Lowe
Australia