06-18-2007, 08:06 PM
Quote:MeinPanzer:3skhn3v1 Wrote:Paullus Scipio:3skhn3v1 Wrote:Quote:They come from a variety of places - Anatolia (Bithinyans,Lycians,Pisidians) Greece (Aechea,Crete - this is the source for cretan red tunics, by the way) etc.
Your source for the Cretan red tunic wouldn't happen to be the Sidonian stele of Diodotos the Cretan, would it? If so, are you aware of the stele of Chalkokedes the Cretan, c. 200 BC from Demetrias in Macedonia? He is a mercenary archer who wears a white tunic with a dark blue cloak. So, if we include this evidence, white is as likely as red.
Do you have a coloured picture of the stele of Chalkokedes available? It sounds very interesting.
I have one on my computer at home but it is unfortunately a modern picture taken after the stele has very badly faded and only the faint outline of the cloak and shield can be seen. His small oval shield (without boss/spine, so not a thureos) was turquoise with an image of Hercules on it and he wore a bronze Thraco-Attic helmet. His dagger, strangely, was curved, which is unlike anything seen in use among the Greeks of the Hellenistic world save for an example of a curved dagger on the Pergamene weapons reliefs.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
