12-01-2007, 09:34 PM
Just some clarification on the Cuirass that Tarby illustrated.
It is an iron cuirass,( confirmed by Ruben , one of our members) with gold fittings and clearly belonged to a High ranking Noble/Officer and is in the Corfu museum - for website details and other photos see the 'Makedonian armour' thread. I have not seen dating details ( and there may be none, though Ruben might know ), but I would put this at 3rd-2nd century B.C. at a guess - i.e. contemporary with Republican Rome. The museum also has an interesting silvered/tinned helmet that is contemporary with the cuirass , and conceivably associated with it. The helmet too has Republican Roman parallels......
It is an iron cuirass,( confirmed by Ruben , one of our members) with gold fittings and clearly belonged to a High ranking Noble/Officer and is in the Corfu museum - for website details and other photos see the 'Makedonian armour' thread. I have not seen dating details ( and there may be none, though Ruben might know ), but I would put this at 3rd-2nd century B.C. at a guess - i.e. contemporary with Republican Rome. The museum also has an interesting silvered/tinned helmet that is contemporary with the cuirass , and conceivably associated with it. The helmet too has Republican Roman parallels......
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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
