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Hi
I have bought a manning imperial sarissa head and butt-spike. does anybody know where you can get a middle piece for the sarissa pls?
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tnx. I've contacted them.
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Just a cautionary comment here. The actual "sarissa head" is considerably heavier than the actual butt spike and has a slightly greater socket diameter--odd for an extremely long pike that if anything would be tapered toward the front and would have a butt spike heavier than the head to act as a counterweight. Some scholars therefore believe that the "sarissa head" is actually the "aft head" of one of those cavalry lances with a point at each end.
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Indeed,and Connolly offers convincing argumentation fot me. The real sarissa head was most probably one of the smaller heads that were found nearby,and was considerably lighter. Now this is not something that you want to hear after you have just received your long awaited order from MI, but on the other hand it's much easier to find another spearhead than a buttspike like that one. Unfortunately,in fact we can't be sure that this was the sarissa butt, but it makes much more sense than that that bih head was belonging to a sarissa.
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tnx!
I want things right, that's all I'm interested in. If this means discarding or modifying...
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The only widely circulating photo is the one from Manolis Andronikos book but the illustration was not done to the actual sizes of the finds.
The pics were put on the same page of the book without reflecting the true analogy/size the artifacts.
If you like contact the "Hetairoi" and they will help you on your querry.
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John,were photos allowed in the exhibition. There are some objects (like one of the two pyre swords)that i desperately want photos of. Did you take any photos?
Khaire
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EDIT: Sorry,i got my answer from the other thread you posted.
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