10-25-2008, 03:05 AM
Hi Aurora! ( a very appropriate name for a Goldsmith, by the way :wink: )
A sheepskin liner to the porpax would be entirely appropriate and, IIRC, is historically accurate too....I'm sure I've seen them depicted on pots, but can't think of a specific example at the moment.
The thin porpaxes, of course, make the Aspis unusable without a 'sleeve' liner of some kind and are probably what is meant when Spartan porpaxes are referred to as 'removable' so as to make the shield useless......as you have discovered, if the porpax itself is 'tacked' or otherwise temporarily fastened, then the shield rapidly becomes dysfunctional.
A sheepskin liner to the porpax would be entirely appropriate and, IIRC, is historically accurate too....I'm sure I've seen them depicted on pots, but can't think of a specific example at the moment.
The thin porpaxes, of course, make the Aspis unusable without a 'sleeve' liner of some kind and are probably what is meant when Spartan porpaxes are referred to as 'removable' so as to make the shield useless......as you have discovered, if the porpax itself is 'tacked' or otherwise temporarily fastened, then the shield rapidly becomes dysfunctional.
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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
