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A \'new\' look at the linothorax
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04-24-2012, 07:38 PM
Quote:So I was going through the Beazely gem archive today...

It isn't the smoking gun. But this is the first artistic depiction I've seen that could, without doubt, illustrate a quilted linen armour. It is an Ionian hoplite, according to art historians, from 500BCE

What art historians think it's Ionian? The gem's part of Boardman's "Classical Phoenician Scarab Corpus", which he believes were all made in homeland Phoenicia, though others have suggested a Punic provenance for at least some of them. It was found in Tharros, a Phoenician settlement in Sardinia (http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/gems/scarab/scarab28.htm). So while the figure is armed at least partly in Greek style, I don't think it is at all safe to assume that he is an accurate depiction of an Ionian - or even that he was ever intended to show an Ionian. And look at that shield - why should we think the armour to be any more realistic than the shield is?

(On the other hand, we do know that both Phoenicians and Carthaginians used linen armour...)

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A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Kineas - 04-19-2012, 01:03 AM
Re: A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Kineas - 04-19-2012, 03:11 AM
Re: A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Magnus - 04-19-2012, 04:05 AM
Re: A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Kineas - 04-19-2012, 06:42 AM
Re: A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Magnus - 04-19-2012, 07:57 PM
Re: A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Gulan - 04-21-2012, 03:47 PM
Re: A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Magnus - 04-22-2012, 04:37 AM
Re: A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Gulan - 04-22-2012, 03:01 PM
Re: A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Gulan - 04-23-2012, 05:05 AM
Re: A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Magnus - 04-24-2012, 11:26 AM
Re: A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Duncan Head - 04-24-2012, 07:38 PM
A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by hoplite14gr - 11-21-2012, 06:47 PM
A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Dan Howard - 11-22-2012, 02:44 AM
A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Nikanor - 11-28-2012, 06:49 PM
A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Dan Howard - 11-29-2012, 04:58 AM
A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Dan Howard - 11-30-2012, 03:21 AM
A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Dan Howard - 11-30-2012, 03:37 PM
A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Dan Howard - 11-30-2012, 05:33 PM
A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Nikanor - 12-08-2012, 04:19 AM
A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Dan D'Silva - 01-16-2013, 10:22 PM
A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Dan Howard - 01-17-2013, 05:07 PM
A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Dan D'Silva - 01-18-2013, 05:01 PM
A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Lyceum - 01-18-2013, 07:57 PM
A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Dan Howard - 12-07-2013, 06:57 AM
A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Urselius - 12-07-2013, 12:21 PM
A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Dan Howard - 12-07-2013, 01:15 PM
A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Urselius - 12-07-2013, 02:31 PM
A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Dan Howard - 12-07-2013, 09:56 PM
A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Alexand96 - 11-08-2012, 11:34 PM
A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Dan Howard - 11-09-2012, 01:53 AM
A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Alexand96 - 11-09-2012, 02:19 AM
A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Dan Howard - 11-09-2012, 04:19 AM
A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Dan Howard - 11-10-2012, 01:34 AM
A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Joze - 01-16-2013, 04:28 AM
A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by hoplite14gr - 01-16-2013, 01:47 PM
A \'new\' look at the linothorax - by Dan Howard - 01-16-2013, 02:13 PM

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