05-02-2007, 12:32 PM
We are back where we had been two pages before? 
As I said and Giannis also implied, the different technique for the lower edge and the edges at the arms could be a tribut to the suggested position of the sculpture on a elevated base or something like this.
Or perhaps just money was too low or ran out to form the upper edges. Silly explanation, but live is (and was) strange sometimes...
So one can explain the piece as simply another example of a metal breastplate. It is not a proof for leather armour (what meinpanzer never said, I don't understand Magnus totally); it could perhaps be used as a weak hint. But I believe a metal cuirass should be depicted.
As I said and Giannis also implied, the different technique for the lower edge and the edges at the arms could be a tribut to the suggested position of the sculpture on a elevated base or something like this.
Or perhaps just money was too low or ran out to form the upper edges. Silly explanation, but live is (and was) strange sometimes...
So one can explain the piece as simply another example of a metal breastplate. It is not a proof for leather armour (what meinpanzer never said, I don't understand Magnus totally); it could perhaps be used as a weak hint. But I believe a metal cuirass should be depicted.
Wolfgang Zeiler
