05-15-2008, 03:11 PM
Found a lovely ceramic bowl fragment. Digenes Akritas slaying the dragon, excavated in the Athenian agora. Now by the style I'd say it is about 12th or 13th C. Digenis appears to be wearing a nice kabadion with split sleeves. Of more interest are the plumbata/marzobarboulon in the dragon's neck. From memory, by the 10 th century only heavy cavalry used these short, lead-weighted darts, which were carried in a case. Does anyone have a source for their use so late?
Peter Raftos