10-29-2007, 09:43 AM
Quote:Makedonian peltai were circular, and made of wood and were rimless ( to allow two handed grip of the sarissa)
Not all peltai were rimless; many just had smaller rims than most hopla but had rims nonetheless.
Quote:Yes like this example from King Pharnakes I who ruled Pontis from 185 BCE to 160 BCE
K. Liampi surveys all the existing examples of Macedonian shields in "Der makedonische Schild."
These include:
A complete miniature bronze coating of a Macedonian shield (diameter 33.8 cm) found in Olympia and dated (rather dubiously, I think) to the end of the 5th or the beginning of the 4th C. BC.
A fragment of a bronze coating from Dodona, reconstructed diameter of 66 cm, dating to the 3rd C. BC.
The fragments of a bronze shield coating already mentioned from Begora/Florina, reconstructed diameter of 73.6 cm, dated to the end of the 4th or beginning of the 3rd C. BC.
Apparently a coating found in Pergamon that Connolly illustrates, but I have never found anything on this outside of his book (not even, for instance, in Liampi's very comprehensive text mentioned above).
In addition to this, two molds for making shield coverings of this sort have been found in Memphis, diameter of 70 cm, dated to the first half of the 3rd C. BC.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
