09-01-2007, 07:31 AM
Quote:Quote:By the way, if you are interested, in the same magazine there are color photos of wall paintings showing Achaemenid warriors from Tatarli tumulus, near Afyon, Turkey, including unique depiction of the Immortals.
...yes please !I am sure everyone interested in this thread would love to see them !
Quote: These might have been published, but don't know if the color versions have.
Well, I for one haven't seen them published, and certainly not in colour - really looking forward to seeing them posted here !!
If you go to the website
http://www.museum-achemenet.college-de-france.fr/
Search for "battle" or "chariot." There are colour images and line drawings of some portions. The whole strip seems to show a funeral procession and a battle scene. The battle scene shows Persians (king in royal chariot, mounted archers) fighting Scythians (mounted archers, a few men on foot) while the funeral procession shows cavalrymen and Immortals carrying spears with apple-terminals.
Apparently, these are but two panels of a tomb that was entirely covered on the inside with them, and all were painted. Dating shows that this was the tomb of a man who was a veteran of the war against the Scythians (hence the decoration). The other beams are apparently still in Turkey and have not yet been published. The only reason these two are available is because they were sent to Munich in the 1960's, IIRC, and have been held in a museum there since.
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
