Those coupling-sleeves again...

[Condottiero Magno]

Saw this on Hixenbaugh Ancient Art page. If it is a coupling sleeve it is a lot longer than the sleeves depicted on artists' impressions. 



https://www.hixenbaugh.net/gallery/detai...AWqOQc73bo
Regards
Michael Kerr

And it is a lot linger than the only extant so-called coupler which, if memory serves, was about six inches. I would also ask just which ancient sources describe the sarissa as being constructed of two shafts?

I saw this auction listing ages ago, but wasn't sure of its provenance...

Based on the decorative segmentation, the "tube" attached to the spearhead and functioned as a langet, though Matthew discounts this in his book.

How many sarissa sauroters of this specific design have been found? I'm curious as miniature designers have sculpted all sarissophoroi wielding pikes with this type of butt-spike.