04-28-2007, 07:46 PM
Quote:There is example of armor painted purple so blue is not unlikelt but it might be representing iron. It is plausible.
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It could be painted, but how do you explain the same blue spearheads? In the Aghios Athanasios paintings, a man is also shown carrying a pale of some kind which is likewise completely blue. I highly doubt that of spearheads would be painted.
By the way, when you said
Quote:Bythinians with pikes are a matter of interpretation from the analysis I read on the Battle of Nicopolis and that is why I posted "chances are..." nothing concrete.
What primary account of the battle are you referring to?
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
