10-05-2009, 06:28 PM
Quote:No, it´s not off. You can go there and look at it, it´s green. I took the pic myself. Doesn´t change the argument, though...
Then it's clearly just the fading of the colours, since it seems a very bluish green in the photograph anyway. Note the Pseudo-Corinthian helmet on the ground - it's clear that the artist has used yellow to represent bronze (as also on the rim of the other shield on the ground). It's much easier to imagine an iron cuirass at that date than a bronze-bladed machaira or xiphos!
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