04-08-2013, 02:32 PM
Dan Howard wrote:
> you can't tell how something is constructed just by looking at a sculpure.
One cannot be absolutely certain, but many of them are sufficiently detailed that one can make educated, functional guesses. I tested all my new (and some of my old) interpretations with the construction of samples.
Definitions are indeed fundamental, and the lack of them is one of the things that has crippled the study of what I call "exterior small plate armours". So addressing that was the starting point for my book. I am sorry to keep you on tenterhooks, but I do not have the time to rehearse the contents of the book piecemeal on a forum.
Edouard: there are some good pictures of Mars of Todi on the web.
Richard: I cannot see any lamellar on the 'Sacrifice of The Trojan Prisoner'. Perhaps the picture is too low resolution.
Timothy
> you can't tell how something is constructed just by looking at a sculpure.
One cannot be absolutely certain, but many of them are sufficiently detailed that one can make educated, functional guesses. I tested all my new (and some of my old) interpretations with the construction of samples.
Definitions are indeed fundamental, and the lack of them is one of the things that has crippled the study of what I call "exterior small plate armours". So addressing that was the starting point for my book. I am sorry to keep you on tenterhooks, but I do not have the time to rehearse the contents of the book piecemeal on a forum.
Edouard: there are some good pictures of Mars of Todi on the web.
Richard: I cannot see any lamellar on the 'Sacrifice of The Trojan Prisoner'. Perhaps the picture is too low resolution.
Timothy
