02-18-2008, 12:06 AM
I wonder if 8-10 kg is perhaps too heavy an estimate, especially for later Aspides. There are a couple of surviving circular re-inforcements on the interior such as this one.....and the fact that later Aspides seem to have had these, while earlier types ( like the Vatican shield) did not implies a certain lightening, and that they were likely thinner than the earlier type...... Thanks for the photos, Giannis.....I had not seen these reconstructions before !! 
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
