constructing and mounting a porpax

[Paullus Scipio]

Giannis wrote:

Kineas,there are actually one or two such rims,I didn't make the theory on my own......

Really? What is the evidence for Aspides rims having triangles turned over the face? Given the paucity of archaeological evidence ( and I can't recall seeing such a shield rim in archaeology ) I am rather skeptical of this.....the more so because that particular shield design is my invention, my own interpretation ( back in the 1970's) of what a Spartan shield MIGHT have looked like, as painted by Jeff Burn, and illustrated on P.47 "Warfare in the Classical World" - I still have my original sketches to prove it ! The triangular rim design was 'borrowed' from one of the shields illustrated on the Chigi vase, and is just one of several rim decoration designs. Since the Chigi vase shows this type of decoration front and back, it is highly unlikely to represent a turned over triangular edge.( AFIK there are no archaeological or iconographic illustrations of a Spartan 'Lambda' Aspis, and certainly not back then).

Triangles bent in the inside was the method later macedonian bronze facings covered the pelte.

This is correct...more than one example of a Macedonian pelte cover, which was rimless, being finished in this fashion is known, but I can't recall any rimmed Aspis being so fashioned......