Byzantine Weapons and Warfare

[Orlirva]

Yes I acknowleded the two earlier excellent conversations - I read them carefully- and the first post by Peter Rafkos especially seemed to nail most of the key issues. However many aspects are unresolved, such as the exact nature of the spear head and also AFAIK there has never been an attempt to examine the period images to identify candidate menavlion, or images that seem to show use of thick short spears that might meet the sapling description, some of which I offer above for your consideration. Also, some people a year or two suggested they might try to recreate said device, and I was curious if there are any experiments to report.
-Rick
p.s. the tiger picture is clearly a gladatorial event, since the men are wearing gladatorial uniforms, so the spear may not have the crossbar not quite by accident - the others seem to be hunting.

Been covered previously;

http://www.romanarmy.com/rat/viewtopic. ... c340b9475f

starting 7 posts up from bottom of page.