The "Paint Brennus" competition.
Greetings all!
I thought I would ask your advice (dangerous considering some of the people who frequent this forum and some of the ideas which received popular support in the past, but still).
For some people their interest in the past is just passing (no pun intended), for some it goes little further than EB. For some fools like myself it is skin deep.
For some time now I have been indulging my Celtic tendencies by having Iron and Dark Age designs tattooed onto my skin. With the exception of one (the first one I had done) all them are in blue, in accordance with the Ancient British and Pictish habit of using woad (bobbin, Edorix, we discussed this, we couldn't agree so I am being stubborn). They range in date from the 6th Century BC to to the 7th Century AD and are all either La Téne or Insular Dark Age in style. Although I have a few artefacts picked out that I intend to use for future designs there are some which I am not too sure on. Therefore I thought I would ask people to contribute images of artefacts and illustrations which might be appropriate. The current situation is:
1 Triskele from the Book of Durrow (a Dark Age Irish illuminated manuscript) on the base of my neck
2 Concentric circles on the tops of my arms (adapted from a Lepontic relief from the 6th century BC and a common pattern found in Britain and Gaul)
2 Pictish animals (a wolf and a boar) along my clavicles, both of which can be found in the National Museum of Scotland and date from the 3rd Century to the 7th Century AD.
In the future I intend to use triskeles from the Pictish Norrie's Law hoard for my chest and a triskele from the Bann Disk, an Irish bronze example of La Téne art, for my shoulder blades.
If you would like to suggest artefacts/designs/illustrations please do so. I simply ask you observe the following rules:
1. They must be either La Téne or Insular Dark Age in design: No Scythian, Celtiberian, Jastorf, Dacian, Anglo-Saxon, Nordic or Halstatt patterns.
2. No Christian imagery or knot work, the all too common types of Celtic artwork.
3. Please provide the source or provenance of the object/image, if it is anonymous I won't accept it.
4. The artefacts images must have been produced between the start of the La Téne period and the end of the 7th/8th centuries AD, ideally I would prefer images from within the EB timeframe as La Téne art is superb during this period.
And remember, for whatever tactical/strategic problems you may have in EB a fullstack of Belgic minhalt will always do the trick... well... except against the Sauromatae.... that really went badly.
-Brennus
donated by ARCHIPPOS for being friendly to new people.
donated by Tellos Athenaios as a welcome to Campus Martius
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Originally Posted by moonburn
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