Pteruges

[FlaviusCrispus]

Only in Late Roman art like those showing Honorius and this one of Constantine (again from Travis' excellent site) :

Wow, ask and you shall receive...

I also have a little bronze statue of Jupiter, ca. mid-third century AD, that shows him wearing armor and a baldric/sword. But it's not common.

BTW Flavius,
How about this ivory piece of work (showing Justinian ?) ? Is this another bad copy like the Honorius one ? It has similar features.

Well, certainly not a BAD copy... it's a much better piece of art.

Yeah, I was thinking about posting the Barberini ivory too, since it had a shoulder similar to the Honorius diptych. But note that the "tongue pteruges" (or lappets or whatever) are of a more conventional depiction; also, the mounted figure (either Justinian or Anastasius) has a more traditional muscle cuirass, without the rounded shoulder. What does it all mean? I dunno, except that life is life, art is art, and not always do the twain meet. [/quote]