09-12-2007, 02:24 AM
Quote:Other rim fragments from Olympia and Athens are undecorated...I did say "virtually all", not "all" - I am aware that some rim fragments exist without the pattern, but the great majority, including the Etruscan (?) shield in the Vatican, and the Italian examples Dan posted have this rim pattern, or variations of it.
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(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