Hoplite Shield Designs

[Paullus Scipio]

Stefanos wrote:

Human figure designs appear in hoplitodromy shields.

....these are clearly marked as such with a competitor, and probably indicate "official" weighed etc competition shields ( see examples below) for the Holitodromy race...... ( see examples below), and as Stefanos says, certainly not "battle" shields.

Alkibiades had the Cupid casting thunderbolts on his shield but it was a rare exception.

...this anecdote is recorded by Athenaeus and Plutarch, where Alcibiades shield is supposed to have been made of gold and ivory and decorated with a cupid wielding Zeus' thunderbolt, both writing in Roman times well over 500 years after Alcibiades, among dozens of other scurrilous stories of Alcibiades, and all but certainly untrue, or at least highly unlikely.......but just about possible (?)
I have found one picture at least of a 'human' like figure being used as shield decoration - what appears to be a 'faun' or 'Silenos' ....see below.