how did ancient greeks make aspis?

[Giannis K. Hoplite]

It is of no point to ask if it would be "better" to make it from a single block of wood, or ring method. It is proven that they were made with planks, in a way or another. At least three different methods of shield cores have been identified archeologically, and all of them involved planks. The planks varry between 20-30 cm in one shield, to 4-7cm oin some others. The width of the planks was not steady in the same shield, those in the middle usually being wider than those at the top and bottom. They were some times linked together with wooden pegs, wooden links, and in one case bronze links.

There are at least 10 shields from Greece and Italy that retain large enough partsof their cores to allow a complete or partial reconstruction of their construction method. Most of them are made with plain planks, but there are two that were laminated, and three that had crossing pices of wood in addition to planks, but unfortunately there are the most partially preserved.
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