03-18-2011, 12:26 AM
I don't know the date of these sculptures, but they seem to clearly show scales overlapped on one side- as both Dan and I suggested for the armor reconstructed in this thread.
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These scales are very much like the rectangular scales, often iron, that we see from Assyria. It could indicate that this was brought to Italy via Carthage. Iron corslets were evidently a common armor type in Carthage and could have been of this form. One explanation for the white scales might be that they were of rawhide and whitened.
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These scales are very much like the rectangular scales, often iron, that we see from Assyria. It could indicate that this was brought to Italy via Carthage. Iron corslets were evidently a common armor type in Carthage and could have been of this form. One explanation for the white scales might be that they were of rawhide and whitened.
Paul M. Bardunias
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