08-12-2010, 06:22 PM
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I have found this very interesting.I've been told that scalps usually look nothing like the one on that vase but then... If the Greeks were doing it (far more "civilized" in war matters than Romans even in Hellenistic times) then i'm sure the Romans wouldn't have moral doubts!
"Wine Cup Fragment with a Warrior
Greek, made in Athens, 500-490 BC
Terracotta
Red-figured kylix fragment attributed to Onesimos as painter and signed by Euphronios as potter
Inventory # 86.AE.311
This is the only known example in Greek art of a warrior wearing the scalp of an enemy on top of his helmet. According to the historian Herodotus (about 484-424 BC), Greeks adopted the practice of scalping from the Scythians, a tribe of fierce warriors who lived north of the Black Sea.
Text from the Getty Villa museum label."
Khairete
Giannis
I have found this very interesting.I've been told that scalps usually look nothing like the one on that vase but then... If the Greeks were doing it (far more "civilized" in war matters than Romans even in Hellenistic times) then i'm sure the Romans wouldn't have moral doubts!
"Wine Cup Fragment with a Warrior
Greek, made in Athens, 500-490 BC
Terracotta
Red-figured kylix fragment attributed to Onesimos as painter and signed by Euphronios as potter
Inventory # 86.AE.311
This is the only known example in Greek art of a warrior wearing the scalp of an enemy on top of his helmet. According to the historian Herodotus (about 484-424 BC), Greeks adopted the practice of scalping from the Scythians, a tribe of fierce warriors who lived north of the Black Sea.
Text from the Getty Villa museum label."
Khairete
Giannis
Giannis K. Hoplite
a.k.a.:Giannis Kadoglou
a.k.a.:Thorax
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a.k.a.:Giannis Kadoglou
a.k.a.:Thorax
