12-08-2007, 12:27 AM
Quote:Hi there Gaius Julius Caesar
That shield is currently in a series of hot debates within Russian academia as there isnt enough evidence as yet to establish if they were carried like this all the time during combat (perhaps on horseback), if he was simply just buried like this or if this was the way the shield was carried when not in use. Ethnographic photos of Siberian tribes - I believe one is posted on this site somewhere - show that they were carried like this.
I think it's pretty clear that they were worn like that in combat, as we have the Solokha comb to provide us with about a clear an example as we could ever wish to get. The only mystery is, as you say, just how it was attached.
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
