08-07-2012, 12:30 AM
Food for Thought and User-Introduction
Hello,
my name is Thomas and I am from Southern Germany. As I am intersted in ancient arms and armour, I joined the RAT-Community today. I was impressed by the knowledge of the users and the wealth of information.
Anyway... I wanna recreate a T&Y-Cuirass someday. So I was browsing the web, looking for informations on the subject.
I found a interessting source, that might corroborate the theory, that the infamous T&Y-Armour was made out of leather ("Spolas").
The mentioned source is a book called "Schutzwaffen der Skythen" ("defensive arms of the Scythians"), by Evgenij V. Cernenko. Cernenko states that the (bronze) scales were (almost always) attached to leather ("Als Unterlage verwendete man meist Leder,...), wich was veg-tanned("Das Leder bearbeitete man mit pflanzlichen Gerbstoffen,..."). I am aware of the fact that Scythian armour is not Greek armour. But if you look at the Solocha Comb http://img304.imageshack.us/img304/2428/kamm8zf.jpg , one will recognize, that the leather-and-scale armour of the Scythians was cut like the Greek T&Y-Cuirass (e.g. shoulder flaps and pteryges). Cernenko even uses this well-known picture http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o118/...gscene.jpg to show his readers how the scale-covered leather fragments might have looked like back then.
PS: I am sorry for my English. I have not wrote any English texts for four years now.
Hello,
my name is Thomas and I am from Southern Germany. As I am intersted in ancient arms and armour, I joined the RAT-Community today. I was impressed by the knowledge of the users and the wealth of information.
Anyway... I wanna recreate a T&Y-Cuirass someday. So I was browsing the web, looking for informations on the subject.
I found a interessting source, that might corroborate the theory, that the infamous T&Y-Armour was made out of leather ("Spolas").
The mentioned source is a book called "Schutzwaffen der Skythen" ("defensive arms of the Scythians"), by Evgenij V. Cernenko. Cernenko states that the (bronze) scales were (almost always) attached to leather ("Als Unterlage verwendete man meist Leder,...), wich was veg-tanned("Das Leder bearbeitete man mit pflanzlichen Gerbstoffen,..."). I am aware of the fact that Scythian armour is not Greek armour. But if you look at the Solocha Comb http://img304.imageshack.us/img304/2428/kamm8zf.jpg , one will recognize, that the leather-and-scale armour of the Scythians was cut like the Greek T&Y-Cuirass (e.g. shoulder flaps and pteryges). Cernenko even uses this well-known picture http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o118/...gscene.jpg to show his readers how the scale-covered leather fragments might have looked like back then.
PS: I am sorry for my English. I have not wrote any English texts for four years now.
