05-29-2007, 08:00 PM
Quote:MeinPanzer, could I have the citation for those terracotta figures please? I haven't heard of them, and want to judge for myself. What did they look like?
I don't have a citation, unfortunately, as I found the images of them in a thread about Thracian helmets on a Russian forum linked to from a thread here on RAT some time ago. I'll post them later. The riders wear "flared" muscled cuirasses, and one wears an iron cuirass (I thought there were two, but on second inspection just one). The others wear identical cuirasses but of bronze instead, while some of them wear iron helmets. The iron is painted dark grey, and the bronze yellowish brown.
Quote:From: >>>> http://www.travel-to-corfu.com/place.php?place_id=26
http://www.travel-to-corfu.com/photo.php?photo_id=81
http://www.travel-to-corfu.com/photo.php?photo_id=83
Does anyone know if this Cuirass from Corfu, is made of Iron or Bronze?
It was posted along with black & white pic from diferent angle else where, in iron helmet & cuirass thread.(PS: Didnt' explain it).
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/Comerus/cuir.jpg
The cuirass definitely looks iron, and also seems to be of the "flared" type. The helmet is 3rd C. BC (from P. Dintsis, Hellenistische Helme). Were the helmet and cuirass related?
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
