09-02-2009, 04:40 PM
Personally, as I have indicated on another thread, I think Connolly ( and others) have it right......such little artistic evidence as we have ( mainly the (Aemilius Paullus monument) shows a rimless shield with both porpax and antilabe.......I don't know of any depiction (or any other evidence for that matter) which shows a sarissaphroi shield without a porpax and antilabe, so the existence of such a shield must remain pure speculation, as must a "large rimmed shield" for which there is almost no evidence either, other than the belt depiction which is artistically suspect anyway....
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(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
(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
