01-01-2007, 08:09 PM
That's the thing about the Dura finds- more seem to have had fabric than skin. Those fragments that are described as having leather on the outside are lost so that description cannot be checked, and the one we all know that has rawhide on its faces (both), that skin is described as parchment- i.e., very thin, which would seem to preclude it as a protective layer; it's on both sides too, which also suggests it wasn't protective. One has nothing but gesso on the wood.
Of course these finds are too few in number to really conclude anything, but it certainly does seem that just like everything else, there was a fair amount of variation...
Of course these finds are too few in number to really conclude anything, but it certainly does seem that just like everything else, there was a fair amount of variation...
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