05-13-2007, 11:47 PM
Good post Ruben !
There are many that survive from ptolemaic Egypt and South Italy in particular - probably too many to list, but perhaps we should try?
Is it too much to ask you to re-construct your list ?
Yes, I had that tomb painting in mind.My recollection was brownish, but your post prompted another look - it certainly seems, in one reproduction at least, to have a purplish tinge. I note they are also shieldless ( but then so are two other un-armoured figures) . Might they be intended to be cavalrymen ?
regards, Paullus Scipio/ Paul McDonnell-Staff
There are many that survive from ptolemaic Egypt and South Italy in particular - probably too many to list, but perhaps we should try?
Is it too much to ask you to re-construct your list ?
Yes, I had that tomb painting in mind.My recollection was brownish, but your post prompted another look - it certainly seems, in one reproduction at least, to have a purplish tinge. I note they are also shieldless ( but then so are two other un-armoured figures) . Might they be intended to be cavalrymen ?
regards, Paullus Scipio/ Paul McDonnell-Staff
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff