01-08-2008, 05:35 PM
Thanks everyone!
Unfortunately due to copyright I don’t think I’m allowed to download and attach a picture of one of the vase paintings I saw and I can't get a link to work straight to it but go here (link below) then to 'Databases' then search for 'dolphin'. It should be about halfway down the page. It is a fragment of a red figure cup from the Beazley Archive (525-475BC) from the Bucarest National history Museum. It shows a warrior in hoplite panoply carrying two spears/javelins and holding a small shield with one dolphin on it.
Link - http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
The example I gave from Connolly looks to be about 5th C BC and looks like it’s just a small aspis. (Again I would scan in but - copyright)
There is also an illustration (plate J) in The Ancient Greeks (Osprey book by Nik Sekunda) of a ‘Thessalian javelin man’ based on a coin from Pelinna in Thessalia Hestiaiotis. He’s carrying a small round peltē that looked like it’s made of (or covered in) bronze and has a rim like an aspis.
As far as the straps are concerned David; as well as the types Chris has already mentioned peltes where also strapped as seen in Johnny Shumate’s illustration from the Battle of Cunaxa -
http://community.imaginefx.com/fxpose/j ... ginal.aspx
There is evidence for this in the same osprey book mentioned earlier which includes a picture of an ‘Attic skyphos’ depicting a peltast with the inside of his shield and the straps visible (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum).
Wolfgang Zeiler (AKA Geala) has posted a pic of a round pelte here (looks like flat wood to me) -
http://www.romanarmy.com/rat/viewtopic. ... &start=140
It has a snake painted on it. Does this mean peltasts did carry insignia like the aspises?
Thanks for the pics Themistoklis!
do you have a date for the first one by any chance?
Unfortunately due to copyright I don’t think I’m allowed to download and attach a picture of one of the vase paintings I saw and I can't get a link to work straight to it but go here (link below) then to 'Databases' then search for 'dolphin'. It should be about halfway down the page. It is a fragment of a red figure cup from the Beazley Archive (525-475BC) from the Bucarest National history Museum. It shows a warrior in hoplite panoply carrying two spears/javelins and holding a small shield with one dolphin on it.
Link - http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
The example I gave from Connolly looks to be about 5th C BC and looks like it’s just a small aspis. (Again I would scan in but - copyright)
There is also an illustration (plate J) in The Ancient Greeks (Osprey book by Nik Sekunda) of a ‘Thessalian javelin man’ based on a coin from Pelinna in Thessalia Hestiaiotis. He’s carrying a small round peltē that looked like it’s made of (or covered in) bronze and has a rim like an aspis.
As far as the straps are concerned David; as well as the types Chris has already mentioned peltes where also strapped as seen in Johnny Shumate’s illustration from the Battle of Cunaxa -
http://community.imaginefx.com/fxpose/j ... ginal.aspx
There is evidence for this in the same osprey book mentioned earlier which includes a picture of an ‘Attic skyphos’ depicting a peltast with the inside of his shield and the straps visible (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum).
Wolfgang Zeiler (AKA Geala) has posted a pic of a round pelte here (looks like flat wood to me) -
http://www.romanarmy.com/rat/viewtopic. ... &start=140
It has a snake painted on it. Does this mean peltasts did carry insignia like the aspises?
Thanks for the pics Themistoklis!
do you have a date for the first one by any chance?
Pericles of Rhodes (AKA George)
