02-08-2007, 11:38 AM
Hello Patrick.
Quick question first, why do you have to do an illustration, is it for a special commission or just for fun.
There is some scale armour from Masada. However most of the battles in the first Jewish revolt apart from the defeat of Cestius Gallus appear to have been sieges. Off hand I can not recall any mention of Jewish cavalry as such. As Volker says's many Jewish warriors would be in civilian clothes with whatever armour they could get hold of but they would not be used to wearing it and their strategy seems to have been to retreat into fortified bases rather than use hit and run tactics.
I would suggest you have a quick read through the descriptions of the battles in Josephus.
Graham.
Quick question first, why do you have to do an illustration, is it for a special commission or just for fun.
There is some scale armour from Masada. However most of the battles in the first Jewish revolt apart from the defeat of Cestius Gallus appear to have been sieges. Off hand I can not recall any mention of Jewish cavalry as such. As Volker says's many Jewish warriors would be in civilian clothes with whatever armour they could get hold of but they would not be used to wearing it and their strategy seems to have been to retreat into fortified bases rather than use hit and run tactics.
I would suggest you have a quick read through the descriptions of the battles in Josephus.
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.
