04-15-2013, 11:08 AM
Hello Jori,
Cool drawing.
However, you perhaps already know how I think about it being scale armour, semi-rigid scale armour as you see it or otherwise. I believe it to be the ancient type of Levantine lamellar armour. Have you read the essay on lamellar armour by Bengt Thordemann? ( michael-engel.io.ua/album329328_0 ) , especially the chapter on ancient lamellar armour from the Near East? On page 273 you can see the principle of the lacing of this kind of armour from actual examples found in Cyprus. It is shown on the Neo-Assyrian Palace reliefs, on some Greek art and on much Etruscan art such as the Mars of Todi. The peculiar "bands" shown in all this art can also be seen on the three deities and is the result of the peculiar type of lacing of the ancient Levantine lamellar, suggesting this type of armour survived into the principate.
Cool drawing.
However, you perhaps already know how I think about it being scale armour, semi-rigid scale armour as you see it or otherwise. I believe it to be the ancient type of Levantine lamellar armour. Have you read the essay on lamellar armour by Bengt Thordemann? ( michael-engel.io.ua/album329328_0 ) , especially the chapter on ancient lamellar armour from the Near East? On page 273 you can see the principle of the lacing of this kind of armour from actual examples found in Cyprus. It is shown on the Neo-Assyrian Palace reliefs, on some Greek art and on much Etruscan art such as the Mars of Todi. The peculiar "bands" shown in all this art can also be seen on the three deities and is the result of the peculiar type of lacing of the ancient Levantine lamellar, suggesting this type of armour survived into the principate.
