03-09-2017, 02:30 PM
The image is based on a sculpture from Arlon in Luxemburg originally part of a much larger relief. The sculpture shows cavalrymen and is similarly reconstructed by D'Amato in the recent Osprey book on units in the Western provinces.
It was as far as I know first reconstructed as shown by Michael Simkins for Marcus Junkelmann in the late 1980's .
I think that scholars such as Mike Bishop and Michael Thomas both known from RAT would argue however that the sculpture is actually a poor representation of mail shoulder doubling.
As an alternative I sometimes think it is an equally poor depiction of a short paenula cloak thrown over both shoulders and fastened up the front.
This should give you an indication that the sculpture is open to interpretation
As Mike Bishop often say's himself you take your choice.
Graham.
It was as far as I know first reconstructed as shown by Michael Simkins for Marcus Junkelmann in the late 1980's .
I think that scholars such as Mike Bishop and Michael Thomas both known from RAT would argue however that the sculpture is actually a poor representation of mail shoulder doubling.
As an alternative I sometimes think it is an equally poor depiction of a short paenula cloak thrown over both shoulders and fastened up the front.
This should give you an indication that the sculpture is open to interpretation
As Mike Bishop often say's himself you take your choice.
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
