12-20-2005, 12:54 PM
Osprey´s "Spartan Army" the plate of the Archaic Spartan Warriors.
It is depicted as leather or oil treated skin sewn on wicker.
Dan Howard belives it was only leather or hide layers and no wicker.
He might have a point but Connoly shows a a votive pottery fragment where the image seems to have "wickerwork" painted on it.
Possibly both might be correct.
Beotian shiled is carried "horisontaly" on most potery but a stautete in Dodona shows the Beotian shield carried "vertically".
Hope I helped
It is depicted as leather or oil treated skin sewn on wicker.
Dan Howard belives it was only leather or hide layers and no wicker.
He might have a point but Connoly shows a a votive pottery fragment where the image seems to have "wickerwork" painted on it.
Possibly both might be correct.
Beotian shiled is carried "horisontaly" on most potery but a stautete in Dodona shows the Beotian shield carried "vertically".
Hope I helped
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Phokean Ekdromos
http://hetairoi.de/
http://hoplomachia.gr
http://stefanosskarmintzos.wordpress.com