11-16-2008, 10:35 PM
Giannis, I can't seem to make that link work.....could you check it. please?
Thanks for posting those photos again."The Vatican shield" in the Museo Gregoriano is often said to be the only surviving 'relatively intact' Aspis, but the fourth photo (lower right) appears also to be taken in the Museo Gregoriano, but is very obviously a different shield!!
It appears they have a second Aspis, almost certainly from another Etruscan tomb.
Do you have any more photos/information regarding the second shield?
Thanks for posting those photos again."The Vatican shield" in the Museo Gregoriano is often said to be the only surviving 'relatively intact' Aspis, but the fourth photo (lower right) appears also to be taken in the Museo Gregoriano, but is very obviously a different shield!!
It appears they have a second Aspis, almost certainly from another Etruscan tomb.
Do you have any more photos/information regarding the second shield?
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
