09-06-2016, 06:34 AM
Paul Bardunias wrote:
"The Spolas reference could easily be satisfied by a garment cut like the leopard skin in the image below (it hangs from the shoulders), while the other two images can surely satisfy the term linothorax (note how thick that garment is over his shoulder in the last pic)."
The Kings charioteer on the Alexander mosaic wears what is clearly a red Tube-and-Yoke corslet, with a diamond pattern that looks very like quilting. His cavalry escort seem to wear plain red 'spolades'/Tube-and-Yoke corselets......
The lexicon entries are pretty clear....
Julius Pollux: ". "Spolas de thorax ek dermatos, kata tous omous ephaptomenos, hos Xenophon ephe "kai spolas anti thorakos" is about as clear as we could hope for."
........and Hesychios clarifies even further.....
spolas: khitoniskos bathus skutinos, ho bursinos thorax
"little thick leathern(skutinos) chiton, the leathern (bursinos) thorax"
the 'spolas' is a leather 'thorax'/body armour, like a chiton of thick leather[skutinos]...
Don't forget 'linothorax' was NOT a classical term.
"The Spolas reference could easily be satisfied by a garment cut like the leopard skin in the image below (it hangs from the shoulders), while the other two images can surely satisfy the term linothorax (note how thick that garment is over his shoulder in the last pic)."
The Kings charioteer on the Alexander mosaic wears what is clearly a red Tube-and-Yoke corslet, with a diamond pattern that looks very like quilting. His cavalry escort seem to wear plain red 'spolades'/Tube-and-Yoke corselets......
The lexicon entries are pretty clear....
Julius Pollux: ". "Spolas de thorax ek dermatos, kata tous omous ephaptomenos, hos Xenophon ephe "kai spolas anti thorakos" is about as clear as we could hope for."
........and Hesychios clarifies even further.....
spolas: khitoniskos bathus skutinos, ho bursinos thorax
"little thick leathern(skutinos) chiton, the leathern (bursinos) thorax"
the 'spolas' is a leather 'thorax'/body armour, like a chiton of thick leather[skutinos]...
Don't forget 'linothorax' was NOT a classical term.
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
