Scutum reconstruction - advice needed

[Tarbicus]

Thanks Peroni, looks very nice indeed. I was just reading the pages by Travis Lee Clark posted on the musculata thread ([url:dphlzma9]http://astro.temple.edu/~tlclark/lorica/bronze_leather.htm[/url]). Interestingly he believes that the materials would have been painted over for a more glamorous (and intimidating) effect. Just wondering how an embossed and painted Medusa's head would look on the umbo.

Since nearly all ancient statuary was painted, it appears that the same held true for the musculata as well. It seems odd that you would make this fabulous object out of bronze only to paint it, but that seems to be the practice.