12-03-2007, 12:12 PM
Quote: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......
Gioi posted that one first, just to Clarify that point! And the info about it being iron! :wink:
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
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[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours!
Titus Flavius Germanus
Batavian Coh I
Byron Angel