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Mart Shearer
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Posted: Tue 04 Aug, 2015 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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There's the vest in the Museo de Armerķa de Alava, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Autonomous Region, Spain. Unfortunately the provenance is questioned.
ferrum ferro acuitur et homo exacuit faciem amici sui
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Heath Barlin
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Posted: Tue 04 Aug, 2015 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for all the great info gentlemen.
I've sent an email regarding that scale. Hopefully I might be able to acquire some dimensions.
Thanks all.
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Henrik Zoltan Toth
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Dan Howard
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Posted: Wed 16 Sep, 2015 6:45 am Post subject: |
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You can't really use these kinds of illustrations to tell whether something is made of metal or leather or cloth. There are only five colours in the palette. The woman's skirt is the same colour as the knight's mail armour. Does that mean that it is made of iron?
Author: Bronze Age Military Equipment, Pen and Sword Books
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Matthew Amt
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Posted: Wed 16 Sep, 2015 6:56 am Post subject: |
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Another caution is that this is presumably an illustration of the Biblical Massacre of the Innocents, so there might be unrealistic details to make the soldiers look "archaic" or "Roman".
Matthew
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Dan Howard
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Posted: Wed 16 Sep, 2015 7:00 am Post subject: |
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Often you see the heroes wearing mail and the "evil foreigner" wearing scale/lamellar. If scale armour is meant to indicate the foreigner then this can conversely be used to argue that the locals did not wear scale.
Author: Bronze Age Military Equipment, Pen and Sword Books
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Iagoba Ferreira
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Posted: Fri 25 Sep, 2015 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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Mart Shearer wrote: | There's the vest in the Museo de Armerķa de Alava, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Autonomous Region, Spain. Unfortunately the provenance is questioned.
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I'm even unsure from what continent it is
It has some interesting features, sugesting it was not made just for display, but a proper examination needs time I don't have currently, and I've got first to end somehow the research on two really interesting medieval mail pieces
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