Spartan Mora regiments at Battle of Plataea

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Sparta had four group dwellings (Komae).
Pitana was one of them. Sources mix ususally the names of units and sub units.
Amofaretos commanded the Pitanates lochos - the unit formed from those who dwelled in Pitana
It was considered senior to others and formed at the rightmost edge of the Sparta's Mora and therefore the whole Spartan Army.
That means that it had the priviledge to have the king and the Aigidae clan among its ranks. Pausanias says the Aigidae formed in the Royal stichos
Therefore Amomfaretos would probaly be position near the king's Bodyguards and carry the gorgoneio of Cahkioikos Athena as depicted in the Chiezi vase or the sample existing in the National Museum in Athens.

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