11-14-2019, 01:40 AM
(11-13-2019, 02:54 PM)Anatol Wyss Wrote: Baffled. Is this the only existing evidence of the sleeve? How was it found and with what else? Pictures of the original? Could the tube have been a part of something else that's been broken? Some kind of tool?
AFAIK, this is the only sleeve in existence.
Hetairoi's reconstruction with the coupling sleeve:The Sarissa experiment - an experience report about the reconstruction of the Macedonian lance. The problem is that the sleeve, doesn't look like the resin cast and the pike's drooping is exacerbated by not being properly tapered and formed from two halves. Christopher Matthew (An Invincible Beast: Understanding the Hellenistic Pike Phalanx in Action) has a whole chapter about the sarissa, but he's too quick to promote the logistical and tactical benefits of a coupling sleeve, when no one else did so in later centuries. The Successor States relied on pikemen, more so than Alexander, and with pikes of greater length, yet no surviving coupling sleeves. Tapering a haft of sufficient length requires specialized tools and training, not something an average footsoldier would need to know, aside from basic maintenance. There are records of Medieval archers having spare bows and an army setting out would have extra pikes in the baggage train.
(11-13-2019, 07:28 PM)Crispianus Wrote: According to Giannis its a resin cast of the original.Grips are made of wire or leather and wound around a haft, not a metal tube.
Anyway it occured to me that it could be a grip, a little long perhaps but not by much.... it would suit me not too large or too small.
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