04-11-2009, 09:16 PM
Quote:Are you sure the hook was used by the Scythians and Persians/Medes on their goritoi
7-4c BC?
I have several publication on Scythians with Russian reconstructions and none of them are showing any hooks , but simply leather thongs, eg latest Pazyrk reconstructions, and goritoi, akinakes and belt constitute one unit.
here is Chernienko and his chapter on the goritoi, he shows no hook either
http://annals.xlegio.ru/skif/chernenk/bow3.htm
also,
Scythians, yes, but Persians, I'm not so sure. As far as Scythian stuff goes, though, they are among the commonest finds in warrior burials and dozens of finds from the Altai preserve them in various states still attached to straps.
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
