01-30-2009, 07:01 PM
Quote:Cool. Thanks Ruben. It looks a lot like the one that Darius' bow-bearer carries in a famous relief at Persepolis. Where was the gortyus published? The only book on finds from the Altai I know of is Rudenko's.
This picture is taken from "Kostjum i tekstil’ pazyrykcev Altaja (IV - III vv. do n. e.)" by N.V. Polos'mak, L.L. Barkova, and V.I. Molodin. This publishes some good pictures of new finds from other, more recent discoveries from the Altai mountains, mainly from the Ukok plateau, which have included at least 3 burials of horse archers from the 4th-3rd c. BC, one of which even includes a very well preserved bow.
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
