Boeotian/Dipylon Shield

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Beotian was a development of Dypylon.
Potery shows it with porpax and antilavi like the argolic hoplon.
We cannnot rule out other ways of holding it though for the early archaic period 800 to 750 B.C.
The scalop when held horizontaly aid aim for javelins which was good for the "irregular" battles of the Geometric Period.
It possibly aided dueling
When the phalanx was tightened with the round shields the beotian shield seemed to be inferior in phalanx fighting.
Possibly it was the Lilantio Pedio war arrount 680 B.C. that settled the question in favor of the "Argolic" hoplon.
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