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Well not really. When I visited the exibiton it was written on sighns that the shield devices were reconstructed with the use of various pottery fragments.
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:? evil: :roll: Doesn't this mean that a lot of the rest is pure guesswork? With what criteria do they chose all the colours and all the detailed design if they can't even make out the whole shield device :?:
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Strictly based on similar one that show mounted warriors carring the same device I believe that is middle Archaic period.
The "Scale shield" appears on an attic vase in Louvre again
The "Beotian type" is probably Early Sykionian but I need more data to back it up. So still under research.
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Hello to all of you!
Has anyone Information about Lions on Greek shields?
While I am slowly planning a panoply, I am searching for such a Shield device and a Polis where it was used.
The Lion seems attractive to me because the blazon of arms of my family out of the middle ages (I know, there is no equality to ancient Greece) shows a walking lion with a white mane on red ground color.
I would be glad to find a polis and a shield device with an equivalent figure.
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Lion:
Athenian Isagoridae clan.
Miltiades and his mercenaries when he was Tyrrant of Kardia in Thrace.
Mycenae double lions,
Lionhead:
Corinthian Horsemen, Samian Geomoroi, Leontinoi Sicely, Ialysos Rhodes
etc. etc. etc
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Thank you, Stefanos!
At the moment, I think the Athenians or Samians would be nice.
I guess the Athenian clan had a complete lion on their shield? Something like
this?
Thanks for these Informations!
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Willi you are 70% correct about the Isagoridae clan of Athens.
There was a 30% chance to have part of the lion on the shield.
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I'm a mayor Sparta fan and can't know enough about them but I'm confused on 1 thing, the moras of Sparta. I know that they had multiple moras of which Sparta was one, now I'm wondering whether the other moras were formed of only Spartiatai or just Periokoi.
I got the idea that Spartans would be send to a mora and would be in charge of it and when duty called Periokoi which were attached to a certain mora would have to call in there and fight with the Spartans in charge of it.
I was wondering of this is true?
And I have another question, about the Spartan bodyguard of the king, did he had 2 or alot more?
And just 1 final question, it confuses me sometimes, would the shield of the person on your right be behind or on the front of your shield?
Also, Spartan fans check out this interesting mod for the game Rome: Total War. They have made a Spartan faction and the starting date for the game is just a few years after Sellesia.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=142035
"Go and tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie." -Thermopylae
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First comment : where did you get your shield from ?
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Piteas, the brother of Sofanes (Alberto from Zaragoza) sold me his shield, because he bought a new shield from Eduardo. The old painting my shield had was a big cock (please don't misinterpret me :lol: ) over a gold background.
It is made of fiberglass with a wood core
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