Some Sarauter revisionism

[Giannis K. Hoplite]

A find that i had promissed to post a long time ago. It's a spear from Vergina,Prince's Tomb.All the other spears I saw there had only a small ring of gold sheet around the shaft just under the point or butt,but this one shaft was guilded. The spear points next to it are none from the same spear. The was another narrow spear point with another small bit of the guilded shaft preserved. It was a bit thicker than my index finger! You han see and compare the difference between the point and the butt and how tappered it was. I think the inscription said it was a sarissa. Note how small the sauroter is.
Many of the the spear "points" that were found in Vergina were actually sauroters,as Connolly justifies wellin his article about the "cavalry sarissa". That's why they are so big,thick and so wide.
For example see this photo:

In either side of the shield there are the remains of two different spears. Note that both they have a large and a small spear point. Also note that the large ones both have a gold sheet around the shaft. In the inscription of the museum they were calling them all spear points. But they are sauroters. I think that one of the small points had been found stuck on the wall near the roof,i don't know how,perhaps due to corrosion. The length was much more than an infantry spear but much less than a sarissa,which perhaps means that it was a "cavalry sarissa"
Two things to note about those photos: If you measure the shield,it is much off-centered,bothvertically and horizontally(i know it belongs to another thread).
About the first picture,was taken thanks to Athanasios Porporis. We had visited Vergina together. Much apreciated,since you all know that photos are not allowed in that museum!