11-05-2002, 05:56 PM
Hello,<br>
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I agree too about those shields. The "semi-globe" appears far too regularly and deliberately in images of hoplomachoi to be able to ignore it or explain it away. I have commonly seen it passed off as "the artists inability to portray a shallow dished shield", for example; which I don't buy. I think the thing that finally convinced me was the priapic sculpture of the gladiator from Pompeii who has apparently deliberately been sculpted carrying a semi-globular "salad bowl".<br>
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Susan <p></p><i></i>
<br>
I agree too about those shields. The "semi-globe" appears far too regularly and deliberately in images of hoplomachoi to be able to ignore it or explain it away. I have commonly seen it passed off as "the artists inability to portray a shallow dished shield", for example; which I don't buy. I think the thing that finally convinced me was the priapic sculpture of the gladiator from Pompeii who has apparently deliberately been sculpted carrying a semi-globular "salad bowl".<br>
<br>
Susan <p></p><i></i>