10-21-2013, 02:32 PM
Hm, that is a valid question. I have been assured by experienced researchers that black dyes and paint were available in period and why would an artist depict a black faced Corinthian, not only this particular vase but several others, if he had never seen one? As for the thorax, this is not the only depiction of a black tube & yoke, at least sections of the armour, there are various images much like the one above and there are also depictions of black ptyreges, I understand the monochrome nature of the vase paintings, but clearly not all tube & yoke armours were plain white.
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Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
