Uratian and Persia shields

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There is a shield type from Urartu that shared a bronze covered convex face and offset rim with the Greek Argive aspis (first image below). The similarity pretty well ends there though, because the shield appears to be held in the hand by a single grip, oddly offset, and a strap (second image). As you can see the handle was not in the middle, but above the center line, squarely in the top half of the bowl. This is an odd and awkward place to hold shield.

I also have pondered this extremely large and convex, though rimless Persian (wicker?)shield. I noticed that the hand placement is off center towards the top of the bowl. I wonder if this shield has any conncetion to the Uratian one.

Any ideas? Comments on the two shield types? Anyone happen to know the ethnicity of the man in the Persian relief?

The figures from Persepolis are Thracians. I always found the shields strikingly simular to the shape Greek shields. As a number of Greek artists were working at Persepolis I think they are probably accurate.

Round sheilds are quite common in Uratian use in Assyrian art, although they are usually flat. Do you know the date of the sheild? Uratu used shielded cavalry, so the offset grip may be designed to make riding easier? There is a relief often neglected that shows an Assyrian aid to the king with a small round shield bearing a sun motif.
Early Assyrian depictions also show archers using small round shields.

What is the providence of the first sheild PMBardunias posted? The decoration certainly looks Uratian or Mesopotaimian.
The second Greek depiction looks just like a Cypriot shield.