06-26-2019, 03:53 PM
(06-26-2019, 01:19 PM)Purplest Wrote: Your information is great food for thought! A lot on how they were possibly constructed or if someone wanted to make their own. But, it's still too bad that none of them have ever been found. So in the light of this we still don't know how they were made, what they were made of or if they were silver or gold...
Cheers,Thomas
It depends on what your after its easy enough to find ancient items made using any or all of these methods, finding a single example of an eagle made in a particular way wouldn't rule out the other methods since their all feasible, though my personal favorites would be the hollowcast or sheet metal versions rather then the solid metal or wood.
The only Treatises I have on this kind of work are:
"The Treatises of Benvenuto Cellini on Goldsmithing and Sculpture" Dover press
and
"On Diverse Arts" by Theophilus Dover press
Both of which are quite interesting books though much later...
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
