09-25-2005, 11:22 AM
Quote:Well, if the features at the wrists are really cuffs (and not wrist-guards, which would be a really weird choice!! Rolling Eyes ) then we would have an answer to our main question at this thread!
They are clearly shown as sleeves on the Vachères figure by a zig-zag line running up the arm (which may be stitching or some sort of embroidered pattern)... unless he's had a very nasty gash and some ham-handed surgery to stich it up again. There is an easily accessible painting showing this on p.64 of:
P. Connolly 1978: Hannibal and the Enemies of Rome, London
repeated on p.123 of Greece and Rome at War, with Connolly's reconstruction of this type of tunic on p.120 of the same.
Mike Bishop