Hoplite Shield Designs

[hoplite14gr]

Periklis - part of the effort we put on the magazine is to help scale modelers in their accuracy.
We would love to have people painting more accurate Spartans.
Just mentioned our effort when someone asks you where you got your info.

As for
http://www.300spartanwarriors.com/battl ... ponry.html
Since the letters are difficult to make out:
1st row from the left:
Royal solar symbol, Bodyguard(Achean origins), Bodyguard(Doric origins),
Talthybiadae herald, Aegidae Spartoi (indigenous), Neodamodes and Periokoi after 400 B.C.
2nd row from the left:
Sparta, Amyklae (Perioikos?), Pylos, Elos, Geronthrae, Steniklaros, Limnatis(new landholder) Skirits (Dorean?)
3rd row from the left:
Amyklae(Homois?), Limnatis(old landholder), Skiritis (Perioikos?)
4th row from the left:
Achean triangles, Doric menandroi (Dymanes, Pamfileis, Hylleis)

Kind regards