04-20-2009, 09:39 PM
Quote:I know this stele, thank you!
So the tube-and-yoke cuirass would be a linen one? or leather?
This is a highly-debated topic here on the forums. I would say leather, but others would say linen. However, if you're doing a painting, it doesn't really matter - just portray it as a solid colour, probably white or off-white, which could represent either alum-tawed leather or linen, or some other colour altogether.
Quote:Those vertical lined things on the shoulder - is that a stylized tunic, or a part of the cuirass?
Those are pteruges, the same sort of strips of material seen at the bottom, only smaller. What they are made of is, again, debatable, with leather seeming likeliest, but if you're painting, that doesn't really matter either.
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
