03-29-2009, 05:16 PM
Quote:The inscription actually says, "Salmamodes of Adada, good man, farewell."
That was the label they had in the museum, IIRC, but the inscription has been restored to be "Salmas son of Moles of Adada, good man, farewell!" in more recent literature because it doesn't make sense that the man wouldn't have a patronymic.
Quote:What period are these? They both appear to be carrying republican era scuta with spina and wing/butterfly boss'!? :?
These are from the first half of the second century BC. They are carrying thureoi, as was the norm at the time in the eastern Mediterranean, which is indirectly related to Roman scuta in use at the time.
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
