05-19-2006, 02:40 PM
Stylization vs. representation!!
It's an age old battle, like Coke vs. Pepsi, Hulk vs. Superman.
We may never know the answer.
My gut tells me we are seeing stylization here for the hair and that that is not an arming cap. The lorica/subarmalis is very strange, so strange it might actually be an attempt at interpreting armor. Mars, iconographically is nearly always shown in a musculata though, so I can't figure what they are doing. Considering that the iconography for the Herakles figure is dead on from what we know of Lysippan models the Mars looks even more bizarre by comparison.
Travis
It's an age old battle, like Coke vs. Pepsi, Hulk vs. Superman.
We may never know the answer.
My gut tells me we are seeing stylization here for the hair and that that is not an arming cap. The lorica/subarmalis is very strange, so strange it might actually be an attempt at interpreting armor. Mars, iconographically is nearly always shown in a musculata though, so I can't figure what they are doing. Considering that the iconography for the Herakles figure is dead on from what we know of Lysippan models the Mars looks even more bizarre by comparison.
Travis
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Oh! and the Toledo helmet .... oh hell, forget it. :? <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_confused.gif" alt=":?" title="Confused" />:?