12-18-2012, 05:58 PM
Quote:Is this what you mean?
Yes Bill, thats the one, or at least one very much like what I've seen in the past. I assume this is you? Nice panoply!
Is this based on the Mycenaean find posted by Richard? Or is there another example that places the hand guard in a later context?
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Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
