12-13-2009, 07:51 AM
Quote:The stele of Nikanor (the cavalryman) of the same dating is rather interesting as well: he is equipped with an "Attic" helmet and, according to the authors, carries an aspis.
I definitely do not think that the curve beside the figure is a shield. They give no reason why it couldn't simply be his arm, and it has a line on it in the right place and at just the right angle as the band on the upper arm of the other sleeve. On top of this, when we do see heavy cavalrymen carrying shields before and after the period that this stele dates to, they are round and large - this would be the only example of a cavalryman carrying a small round shield. Frankly I don't see any way that this man is carrying a shield.
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
