01-09-2007, 11:03 AM
That type of rectangular buckle seems to be associated with the Pannonian area. I plan to have one series of silver fittings of that kind made sometime in a future, based on the Berkasovo fittings...
I think that the propeller belts were in fashion during the central third of Fourth century.
I agree with Robert about the width of the propeller belts. Of course, there are later residual propellers much higher than that, but they don't belong to the kind of belt you're depicting or to its strict contemporaries.
Incidentally, one of the sailors on one of the repairs to the Piazza Armerina Great Hunt Mosaic is wearing a propeller belt, while on the original sections only straight, simple strip. stiffeners are depicted if any.
Maybe Constantinian in date... :? I cannot recall to have seen propellers on Constantine's Arch but I haven't excamined it in detail...
Aitor
I think that the propeller belts were in fashion during the central third of Fourth century.
I agree with Robert about the width of the propeller belts. Of course, there are later residual propellers much higher than that, but they don't belong to the kind of belt you're depicting or to its strict contemporaries.
Incidentally, one of the sailors on one of the repairs to the Piazza Armerina Great Hunt Mosaic is wearing a propeller belt, while on the original sections only straight, simple strip. stiffeners are depicted if any.
Maybe Constantinian in date... :? I cannot recall to have seen propellers on Constantine's Arch but I haven't excamined it in detail...
Aitor
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