06-03-2009, 04:16 PM
Quote:Sarauters are hollow in the Archaic and Classical period. They are hollow from the entry point of the shaft to within about 2 cm of the tip.
I don't mean to be a buzz-kill, but did anyone say they weren't? I'm at work, so I don't have Snodgrass with me, but the one paper I have that describes a Sauroter from lesbos shows that it was hollow where it joined the shaft- these fragments had no "collar" and were just the spike section. I am suprised that they are hollow to within 2 cm of the tip, though, I would have thought more like half the length was hollow. Though they were hollow, I still assumed that they served to counter the weight of the spear head, which was also hollow. Wouldn't it be nice to have weights?
You know there is another term for the sauroter, "styrex", which refers to a sappy wood. Perhaps this implies that they were filled with adhesive and the shaft inserted?
E-mail me for the paper. Great find in any case.
Paul M. Bardunias
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