10-07-2014, 02:30 PM
Hi Gaius
I try to reply one by one, and I include explanations, references and pictures everytime. Things that some of the replays did not.
You say:
"I'm re-posting Thomas's explanation because he had already clarified it before you misinterpreted it. Hinges open and close the cuirass, like the hinge on on a door. "
This is untrue. The hinges work as a closing device, avoiding movements and distributing weight. The bolt pass through to close and make it strong.
As you can see in the images I attach from a bronce cuirass, they use big hinges in both sides, with bolts that can be removed.
In the Augustus sculpture, the door mechanism is in the shoulders, with two hinges, not in the sides that just work as a closing mechanism.. Will be impossible to open the cuirass with hinges in the shoulders and in the sides.
I try to reply one by one, and I include explanations, references and pictures everytime. Things that some of the replays did not.
You say:
"I'm re-posting Thomas's explanation because he had already clarified it before you misinterpreted it. Hinges open and close the cuirass, like the hinge on on a door. "
This is untrue. The hinges work as a closing device, avoiding movements and distributing weight. The bolt pass through to close and make it strong.
As you can see in the images I attach from a bronce cuirass, they use big hinges in both sides, with bolts that can be removed.
In the Augustus sculpture, the door mechanism is in the shoulders, with two hinges, not in the sides that just work as a closing mechanism.. Will be impossible to open the cuirass with hinges in the shoulders and in the sides.
