04-06-2008, 02:02 PM
What were the typical dimensions (approximately) of the individual lames?
See members.ozemail.com.au/~chrisandpeter/lamellar/lamellar.html
Actual finds are discussed:
"The normal fragments were found in six regular sizes. They varied in width from 3 to 6 cm.; where the whole piece was found, the length was approximately twice the width. All were pierced with holes for attachment; the regular arrangement was three along one end, one on the other, and two along each side. On more than half the examples of each size a flange along the centre was beaten out from back to front."
This may also be of some interest: D’Amato, Raffaele Dott. A Prôtospatharios, Magistros, and Strategos Autokrator of 11th cent. : the equipment of Georgios Maniakes and his army according to the Skylitzes Matritensis miniatures and other artistic sources of the middle Byzantine period : www.porphyra.it/Supplemento4.pdf
Another issue of Porphyria has a reconstruction of John Tzimiskes Immortal guard unit - the text is in Italian:www.porphyra.it/porphyraIX.pdf
See members.ozemail.com.au/~chrisandpeter/lamellar/lamellar.html
Actual finds are discussed:
"The normal fragments were found in six regular sizes. They varied in width from 3 to 6 cm.; where the whole piece was found, the length was approximately twice the width. All were pierced with holes for attachment; the regular arrangement was three along one end, one on the other, and two along each side. On more than half the examples of each size a flange along the centre was beaten out from back to front."
This may also be of some interest: D’Amato, Raffaele Dott. A Prôtospatharios, Magistros, and Strategos Autokrator of 11th cent. : the equipment of Georgios Maniakes and his army according to the Skylitzes Matritensis miniatures and other artistic sources of the middle Byzantine period : www.porphyra.it/Supplemento4.pdf
Another issue of Porphyria has a reconstruction of John Tzimiskes Immortal guard unit - the text is in Italian:www.porphyra.it/porphyraIX.pdf
Peter Raftos