05-14-2007, 10:25 PM
Quote:I'm not saying I have a piece of evidence that the spolas looked like this,nor that this illustration is particularly accurate(sarissas without butt spike?),but this artist's interpretation of the spolas in interesting.
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o118 ... charge.jpg
There is no mention of the spolas being worn by phalangites. There is debate over an item called the kotthubos in the Amphipolis code. Some think it is a drinking cup, others a leather jerkin (based on some analogous words for jerkins, IIRC). I think that is what the artist has tried to represent here (though, as you say, much of this image is inaccurate).
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
