06-02-2010, 03:00 AM
Quote:The bronze layer was indeed hammered on, as Paul B. recounts. There was a groove around the bowl of the shield, where the rim joins the bowl, and hammering the facing sheet into the grove allowed 'stretching' of the facing and facilitated a good tight fit......
Have you ever read anyone suggest Lathing it on? I was thinking of the way they lathed helmets over a form, perhaps these facings over an aspis form, or the aspis itself before the center was hollowed completely. There was a paper on pilos helms that suggested that many extand copies came off the same or identical "forms" due to their uniformity.
Paul M. Bardunias
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