02-23-2006, 08:11 PM
This approach does not account for what may be in an unseen layer.
Consider the possiblities that the statues depict men of wealth and importance who would wear pteruges faced with the finest tablet weaving.
Consider that the face may conceal a material of much greater defensive value.
Consider that at least one of the statues depicting a pattern on a pteruge may depict the heavy grain of hide, and not a weave that you are all working so hard to see.
Consider the possiblities that the statues depict men of wealth and importance who would wear pteruges faced with the finest tablet weaving.
Consider that the face may conceal a material of much greater defensive value.
Consider that at least one of the statues depicting a pattern on a pteruge may depict the heavy grain of hide, and not a weave that you are all working so hard to see.
"In war as in loving, you must always keep shoving." George S. Patton, Jr.