01-06-2007, 11:22 PM
Quote:Thank you.
The tip with the simple holes in the helmets is interesting. I think there must have been some straps in use at least for the not so deep helmets.
Is there really no ancient Greek picture showing chin straps?
wkr
Wolfgang Zeiler
Two, that I know of. One is a bust of Pyrrhus with a fairly peculiar chinstrap arrangement:
[url:r3ztzh23]http://www.utexas.edu/courses/romanciv/romancivimages3/pyrrhus.jpg[/url]
And another is a helmeted head from Old Nisa with a chinstrap arrangement more as we would expect it to be.
[url:r3ztzh23]http://www.unesco.kz/heritagenet/tm/turkm_muz/mus11.jpg[/url]
(this is the only picture I could find online; I have a much better one that I can post later)
Of course, these are both Hellenistic.
Ruben
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
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
