Herakles\' Quiver

[Kineas]

Very nice Christian Is there any indication what the axial lines on the 'spine' of the quiver on the vase are? It's clear the stitching line is indicated with a single line from the base around the curve and up, but those lines only begin a little way up from the base and there are more than one...

Apologies, Matt, I missed this coming in and just caught it going through the thread.

I think that it is entirely possible that this is a second stitch line. Now, having just looked at a bunch of extant quivers (including Sarmaitian bark quivers) AFTER this project (hmmm) I have stated, above, my own doubts--I think that most ancient societies had some pretty temporary quivers, if only because the terms of value were the ARROWS (difficult to make, high cost metal heads, etc) and not the quiver. So a rawhide quiver with paint of protein color decoration would be dead simple, as would bark with paint decoration, whereas a tanned leather quiver would be very durable and last a lifetime...

All that said, if my attempt at reconstruction is correct, than the line you mention is almost certainly a stitch line. Another possibility would be a hard leather spine (the checherboard, sewed up the backbone for added strength or to make it from scraps) with a soft leather "bag" but the artist shows no wrinckles...

All this is a long winded way of saying...

Don't know.