08-07-2021, 11:34 PM
I'm looking forward to reading it Sean!! Very important, as much money is spent by folks these days making the specious glued versions (I know there are still many glue believers), not to mention it is a valuable academic contribution that hopefully will unglue folks from the idea of the glued linothorax.
In a similar vein, I think Connolly is wrong about the leather basis of boar tusk helmets. Rather than an unstable bunch of leather thongs bound at the top of the helmet, I suspect that they were made in a similar manner to scale armour helmets--in segments, and the criss-crossing thongs described by Homer are the thongs lacing the tusk pieces to the helmet; they can be laced on in such a way that a criss-cross pattern is created inside the helmet.
In a similar vein, I think Connolly is wrong about the leather basis of boar tusk helmets. Rather than an unstable bunch of leather thongs bound at the top of the helmet, I suspect that they were made in a similar manner to scale armour helmets--in segments, and the criss-crossing thongs described by Homer are the thongs lacing the tusk pieces to the helmet; they can be laced on in such a way that a criss-cross pattern is created inside the helmet.
Qui sepeliunt capita sua in terra, deos volantes non videbunt.
--Flavius Flav
