12-02-2007, 05:14 AM
Theo/Jaime wrote:-
"What photo ? Is there a link ? "
Sorry! The column base picture is linked in Tarbicus and Salvianus' post on page 2 of the thread that Tarbicus linked to above.....here
http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/resources/ ... lbase3.jpg
...I also found 2 more sides on this site, the fourth is the entrance....
"The armor's description sounds strange. A hybrid of leather and metal with large buckles...hmm.. "
....no, not quite...the column armour has large buckles, the mosaic apparently does not. It was because the buckles were left off/omitted, that I suggested the mosaic artist may have intended a "hybrid" ( possibly! :? )
"Do the segs look something like this perhaps ? " ... :lol: :lol: :lol: Not at all !! The Column one has large buckles, the full width of each hoop, so that they are like a series of belts....close up, the 'tongue' of each hoop/belt is visible through the buckle, with buckle pin through, exactly like a belt...it really can't realistically be anything else...
"What photo ? Is there a link ? "
Sorry! The column base picture is linked in Tarbicus and Salvianus' post on page 2 of the thread that Tarbicus linked to above.....here
http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/resources/ ... lbase3.jpg
...I also found 2 more sides on this site, the fourth is the entrance....
"The armor's description sounds strange. A hybrid of leather and metal with large buckles...hmm.. "
....no, not quite...the column armour has large buckles, the mosaic apparently does not. It was because the buckles were left off/omitted, that I suggested the mosaic artist may have intended a "hybrid" ( possibly! :? )
"Do the segs look something like this perhaps ? " ... :lol: :lol: :lol: Not at all !! The Column one has large buckles, the full width of each hoop, so that they are like a series of belts....close up, the 'tongue' of each hoop/belt is visible through the buckle, with buckle pin through, exactly like a belt...it really can't realistically be anything else...
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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
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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
