Quote:HAMLET Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel? POLONIUS By th' mass, and ’tis like a camel indeed. HAMLET Methinks it is like a weasel. POLONIUS It is backed like a weasel. HAMLET Or like a subarmalis. POLONIUS Very like a subarmalis.
Mike Bishop
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Here's a different die which shows a slightly different form:
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"The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones"
Quote:it's stylised, that's for sure!! It has a crest, but of metal or horsehair??
The helmet looks rather more like a straw hat! :wink:
It might be an Intercisa helmet, but frankly it's anyone's guess..
These 'hat' helmets turn up a lot on coins, in various forms. Three possibilities, I think:
a) it's just a stylised way of depicting a helmet on a very little coin.
b) it's based on a gladiatorial helmet ( :neutral: )
c) it's based on a real helmet type with a wide brim. You see the like in reliefs quite often: the brim is sometimes flattish, sometimes turned up at the front like a sou'wester. Mikkalus is admiring a fine example here:
I think that the last coin shows a Corinthian helmet as often seen worn by the God Mars simply perched on the back of the head with a horse hair crest and side feathers.
Quote:I think that the last coin shows a Corinthian helmet as often seen worn by the God Mars simply perched on the back of the head with a horse hair crest and side feathers.
Which would, stilized, also look like a straw hat with a crest.
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In a thread about Leather armour (musculata etc) there was a picture of a subarmalis draped over a tree stump on a statue. I do not know anymore where that topic is but the statue is in the Vatican Museum. It is Roman and the "armour" is draped over the tree stump.
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
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