02-08-2007, 08:32 PM
I think that idea is derived from the 1872(?) Panticapaeum wall painting that shows a number of Sarmatian-style armoured cavalrymen wielding the contus and appearing to ride side-saddle. Pictures can be found in Mielczarek's "Cataphracti i Clibinarii" and probably a couple of other sources.
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
