06-05-2007, 08:04 PM
Quote:The point is,we are sure they painted their helmets red and other colours,we do know blue was one of their favorite colours(clothes,temples,grave stones etc),why should this helmet-and others be interpreted as more likely an iron one?
It was found in a grave near Ampipolis,I don't know date but if I remember well all fndings in that part of the museum were late classical.With the rest of the gold that was found near and with it,it's a safe guess it comes from arround 350-300bc(oh well,call that Hellenistic if you want)
Khaire
Giannis
Because, as I said before, we know from contemporary art that blue was used to represent iron. I'm not trying to say that everything we see that could have been iron that was painted blue was iron, I'm just saying that there's a good chance that some of it was, and so the blue helmets on the Alexander sarcophagus are not so clearly painted.
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
