12-11-2007, 10:50 AM
Quote:Some more articles for you to peruse, especially on the prickly matter of Scythian archers. Some of you may have based your Scythian costume on Greek Attic vases but a lot of recent research has shown that these images are NOT Scythians, and to copy them would be incorrect.
My Avatar is not a Scythian archer, but of Paris dressed as a barbarian from a Greek temple that has been restored. Paris appears often on Attic vases dressed like a Scythian and this has led to confusion with earlier (out of date) researchers such as M. Vos.
Have you seen the depictions of Saka foot and mounted archers from the painted tomb of a presumed veteran of Darius I's campaign against the Saka? The palette used is quite limited, but it's still a very interesting counterpoint to the depictions of Scythians in Greek art.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
