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The illustration is very good, what book is that from?
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No, I don't think so. I don't know exactly what sort of neck protection is supposed to be depicted there, but the front portion looks like an approximation of the Derveni gorget, while I have no idea what the flap over the shoulder is supposed to be. Gorelik was the first to draw on the Derveni gorget (which was found in a 4th c. BC Macedonian tomb) as an example of what a Persian gorget may have looked like for some reconstructions; it has been widely reproduced since in Russian reconstructions of Persian heavy armour, despite the fact that his reconstruction was highly hypothetical and probably off.
The high collars seen on Persian seals and the Canakkale sarcophagus are high, reaching almost to the top of the head, but do not seem to have curved around much, if at all, and so were probably flat, like the neck-tabs of Greek tube-and-yoke cuirasses.
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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
