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I like the idea, Gepd; it fits in with known iconography, perhaps arms.jpg Your sword with a bird's head pommel, the siege toer is a misinterpretation of a linothorax with one epomis (shoulder piece) unlaced like this download.jpg Then a propped shield to the far left and a helmet in front of it?

It's very like seeing shapes in the flames or the clouds. Whilst the thing by 'twr' resembles the comb of a Phrygian style helmet there does not seem enough room for all of it; the face and/or cheek guards. It could be the prow of a ship, but it is impossible to be dogmatic; though I have no doubt t...

Not sure that a helmet fits into the composition, but then not entirely sure what is there - why no photo of the UV?

Helmet? Maybe if it were to be redrawn by a four year old on acid...with DTs (I live in a rough area) I do see a round tower falling and a square one next to it, maybe a siege tower; Olympias and Hephaistion were hardly famed for siege warfare, one chap was but the name eludes me...

Just on the second date that has been announced, 70BC for the final closing. Assuming that this is in the same uncalibrated form as the very convenient 300 BC one then once calibrated using this free programme http://www.calpal-online.de/ and arrange + or – 30yrs the calibrated range is 58BC – 11AD ...

Since it seems we are to do some more quibbling (nodding curt bows in the directions of Xenophon and Paralus), there is no such person as "Aegus". It is a modern misnomer for Alexander IV based on misreading "Alexander allou" (i.e. "another Alexander") as "Alexand...

Sound caveats about the soot, but I thought it was from the ceiling rather than within the fill and one would have to check the Greek, one man's 'charcoal' is Google translate's 'soot' :lol: The issues would remain. I would take the 70BC as the centre of the range of the uncalibrated results, this b...

I suppose when you get a calculation completely wrong it would be ‘quibbling’ to point out the errors? :lol: :lol: LOL The point which still eludes you, is that Antigonos excised Alexander IV from his dating while the former ‘ruled’ not in some fiction later. When you said Alexander unqualified I ha...

The evidence at the moment would suggest that the original burial was for the cremains within an urn and a body upon a kline or within a coffin (the fragments found could be either). As far as I know there is no evidence for high-status double-decker burials in Macedon. There are then at least three...

All of the generals that made themselves kings after 306BC pretended that their rule had begun from the death of Alexander. Paralus has dealt with most things above but this factual error cannot stand. Of the five Kings we have no evidence for Kassandros or Lysimachos. Antigonos, as we have seen da...

None of the Diadochoi took the Royal title before Demetrios and Antigonos were so style by the sychophantic Athenian State in 306 and then they all did with even Agathokles of Sicily getting in on the act. What singles Antigonos Monopthalmos out is that he expunged Alexander IV from his dating formu...

He did all this long after Alexander IV's death and after he had declared himself a king (since Alexander's family had been exterminated) in order to secure the succession of his family. The arch-royalist Ptolemy did the same, despite having ruled in the name of Alexander IV, erected statues of him...

:lol: :lol: :lol: You really ought to read some history. As for the 'mongrel brat' that is hoe those ultra liberal Macedonians saw Alexander IV, try reading the reasons why they chose Philip, apparently you have a copy of Curtius, nor was Polyperchon's attempt to install Herakles backed by any Maced...

There is certainly much to question; how can Corso know the cremation is of 'a young man', this is just a further demonstration of how polluted the whole discourse is, one cannot discern the age of a pile of ashes and teh serpents on Hephaistions pyre, which was probably only a figment of Kleitarcho...

An analysis worthy of Agnes Saville, herself, nay it surpasses her, she merely uncritically accepted what was in the sources and extrapolated backwards, this simply ignores swathes of evidence and invents an entire milieu; if this is ‘for the record’ then it must be for one by Bernard Cribbens or Ch...