06-19-2007, 04:14 PM
Quote:If it is possible to detect: is it a real white (bleached linen?) or off-white (natural wool?) tunic? Is it sleeved or sleeveless? Is the cloak a chlamys?
Even if I saw a painting of a tunic made today I don't think I would be able to tell if it was bleached or natural! The best I can describe it is off-white. The tunic is short sleeved. Yes, the archaeologist who discovered it called it a chlamys, but I don't know what other kind of cloak it could be, since almost every cloak worn by a Greek is just called a chlamys, even if it's just a rolled up bundle.
Quote:Is the dagger sheated? What kind is the sheat? It's a shame but I have never seen a Greek warrior depicted with a sheated dagger, so every information is welcomed.
It's a a curved dagger hanging from a baldric in a sheath. I have not seen a good picture of the dagger so I have to rely on the descriptions of others, unfortunately.
I'm heading to the museum that houses this stele in about two months, so I'm going to see if I can talk to a curator and maybe wrangle an old picture or two of it from when the paint was much better preserved.
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
