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Quote:Jim, in your post link to the arch you mention a saddle?
I can see what looks like a head! Is that the saddle beside it , or is it depicting some kind of wild cat? It is hard to tell the way that block edge cuts the image in half :?:
They're amongst photos in albums posted in this thread, but not in the specific photo I linked to in that post, sorry.
Going back to the eagle headed swords, this was posted by Arahne in the eaglehaded swords thread:
[url:3ag9et2i]http://www.livius.org/a/1/emperors/tetrarchs.jpg[/url]
Different period, but hey...
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Quote:If you look at the cavalryman in the back, on this photo, he seems to be wearing a strange kind of body armour. Anyone any idea what it is?
[url:10bxjb0b]http://www.archart.it/archart/europa/France/Orange%20-%20roman%20arch/image4.html[/url]
(I think it's scale)
....it looks like a scaleothorax...I wonder if it's one of those Etruscan designs that bridged the gap!
I've seen something similar on a Gaulish warrior before....can't remember where...
Would it be this....?
Picture from this site...:
http://www.truefork.org/Photography/Etruscan_Armour.php
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Quote:Would it be this....?
Picture from this site...: http://www.truefork.org/Photography/Etruscan_Armour.php
Ooh, 'ey. It does look alike, doesn't it. A pity there isn't a larger photo of that cavalryman. :?
[url:2csxk7w2]http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/6733/etrusc29jz1.jpg[/url]
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