03-22-2006, 10:14 PM
Quote:Finally, he is wearing a sword (with the hilt rather badly copied from the Stilicho ivory) suspended from a baldric, which is something almost never seen on depictions of an officer (or emperor) wearing a muscle cuirass.Good point, but the sword is not a copy from the Stilicho diptych:
However, I have seen a sword like that, today as it happens, it's from a statue..
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)