10-11-2007, 03:25 PM
Quote:What I am really trying to figure out is what a Lykian duodrepanon might have looked like so that I can model one on 15 mm toy soldiers...
There are two separate weapons here - Lykians are more associated with simple "sword-sized" drepana, rather than specifically dorudrepana ("spear-sickles"). Drepana have appeared in two recent threads in this forum:
- In the Cunaxa painting thread, http://www.romanarmy.com/rat/viewtopic.php?t=18016
Laran posted some Achaemenid painted panels, and one shows men with hoplite aspides holding drepana. In the same thread he also posted the Kizilbel figure - details of this 19th-century illustration are suspect, but the basic outline of the drepanon’s OK.
- Also on the first graphic of the "Generals triple-crested helms:Monument Greco-Lykian 4thC.BC" thread - http://www.romanarmy.com/rat/viewtopic.php?t=18042 – are a couple of Lykians with drepana.
The dorudrepanon is a spear with a sickle-head below the spearhead, possibly to cut rigging in naval battles. See 28/39 at http://www.cvaonline.org/gems/scarab/scarab28.htm for a scarab showing a hoplite holding one. There are also a couple of Attic vases showing Amazons and Phrygians with dorudrepana, but I don 't know if they're on the web anywhere.
cheers,
Duncan
Duncan
