06-17-2004, 12:14 AM
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Following king Romulus, here is an Etruscan prince. It could be the legendary Lars Porsenna.<br>
His helmet is an interesting mix of pot/Negau type, with decoration of pseudo-corinthian type (the eyes up front) of colored glass. A very luxurious, intrically decorated piece.<br>
The cuirass is a "standard" bell type, meaning I didn't copy it from an actual example I made it up. I saw real examples with the ridge at the bottom reaching absurd width. There must have been a reason.<br>
The lower arm guard I copied from Connolly's "Greece and Rome". Same fo the cnemides. Well, it's a brave attempt..<br>
There is no archaeological example of this type of thigh guard but it appears exclusively on paintings and sculpture, whereas the example (examples?) found go lower on the thigh and are modeled after the leg muscles. It was probably very thin and clipped on like the cnemides.<br>
The shoes are a brave attempt again at something I saw in Connolly.. I liked him better barefoot, actually.<br>
The meat cleaver in his hand is called a falcata, or a kopis, or a machaira, depending whether you're Iberian, Greek or Macedonian. It sems to be an etruscan invention that spread all over the place. Some even think that the traditional nepelese kukri knife, which look strikingly similar is a souvenir from the greek inroads in Asia during the post-alexandrian period.<br>
I've always wondered why the Romans never seem to have used such an awesome weapon. I didn't do the scabbard for the reason that we don't really know how it looked like.<br>
What else.. Ah yes. The shield device gave me hell.. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p200.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=antoninuslucretius@romanarmytalk>Antoninus Lucretius</A> <IMG HEIGHT=10 WIDTH=10 SRC="http://lucretius.homestead.com/files/Cesar_triste.jpg" BORDER=0> at: 6/21/04 12:48 pm<br></i>
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Following king Romulus, here is an Etruscan prince. It could be the legendary Lars Porsenna.<br>
His helmet is an interesting mix of pot/Negau type, with decoration of pseudo-corinthian type (the eyes up front) of colored glass. A very luxurious, intrically decorated piece.<br>
The cuirass is a "standard" bell type, meaning I didn't copy it from an actual example I made it up. I saw real examples with the ridge at the bottom reaching absurd width. There must have been a reason.<br>
The lower arm guard I copied from Connolly's "Greece and Rome". Same fo the cnemides. Well, it's a brave attempt..<br>
There is no archaeological example of this type of thigh guard but it appears exclusively on paintings and sculpture, whereas the example (examples?) found go lower on the thigh and are modeled after the leg muscles. It was probably very thin and clipped on like the cnemides.<br>
The shoes are a brave attempt again at something I saw in Connolly.. I liked him better barefoot, actually.<br>
The meat cleaver in his hand is called a falcata, or a kopis, or a machaira, depending whether you're Iberian, Greek or Macedonian. It sems to be an etruscan invention that spread all over the place. Some even think that the traditional nepelese kukri knife, which look strikingly similar is a souvenir from the greek inroads in Asia during the post-alexandrian period.<br>
I've always wondered why the Romans never seem to have used such an awesome weapon. I didn't do the scabbard for the reason that we don't really know how it looked like.<br>
What else.. Ah yes. The shield device gave me hell.. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p200.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=antoninuslucretius@romanarmytalk>Antoninus Lucretius</A> <IMG HEIGHT=10 WIDTH=10 SRC="http://lucretius.homestead.com/files/Cesar_triste.jpg" BORDER=0> at: 6/21/04 12:48 pm<br></i>
