01-31-2011, 12:12 PM
This particular Odrysian Thracian item has been known for some time, and I had previously wondered if it was mostly 'reconstruction' rather than simply original reassembled......but apparently it is all (mostly??) original.Here are some excellent photos of it and other gear from the same tomb ( and others):-
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rossitza/se...910923041/
It has two features of especial interest:-
Firstly, it is clearly 'double-breasted'.
Second, it has two very unusual circular 'cutouts' on the back of the shoulders on the 'Tube', seemingly creating two weak spots?.....Perhaps these were covered by something else - plate 'rondels' for instance - but one expects the conservators would have placed anything like that found, back 'in situ'.
The other possibility ( though the two are not mutually exclusive) is that the cutouts allow the shoulder pieces to flex downward, with movement, and are necessary because the Tube-and-Yoke are of one piece rather than a separate yoke riding over the tube.....
Anyone any other thoughts/ideas?
Originally, one presumes the exceptionally small scales would have been sewn, as reproduced here, on leather, and trimmed with same as can be seen in the photos - but were traces of organic matter/leather found in the tomb, or is this pure supposition on the part of the conservators?
Anyone seen any reports or detailed descriptions?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rossitza/se...910923041/
It has two features of especial interest:-
Firstly, it is clearly 'double-breasted'.
Second, it has two very unusual circular 'cutouts' on the back of the shoulders on the 'Tube', seemingly creating two weak spots?.....Perhaps these were covered by something else - plate 'rondels' for instance - but one expects the conservators would have placed anything like that found, back 'in situ'.
The other possibility ( though the two are not mutually exclusive) is that the cutouts allow the shoulder pieces to flex downward, with movement, and are necessary because the Tube-and-Yoke are of one piece rather than a separate yoke riding over the tube.....
Anyone any other thoughts/ideas?
Originally, one presumes the exceptionally small scales would have been sewn, as reproduced here, on leather, and trimmed with same as can be seen in the photos - but were traces of organic matter/leather found in the tomb, or is this pure supposition on the part of the conservators?
Anyone seen any reports or detailed descriptions?
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
