Quote: It represents a Persian king fighting against a Yauna (Greek). As Darius is not known to have fought against them -he had generals like Datis and Artaphernes to do that- it must be Xerxes.

Quote:This seal is not unique....there are others of similar style showing a Persian King killing a 'Greek'......but one cannot tell if they refer to the conquest of the Greek cities of Asia minor and the islands, the putting down of revolts by the Ionian cities or, if it is indeed Xerxes, the 'conquest' of European Greece. The palm-trees are certainly hardly symbolic of 'the Greeks across the sea/Greece.

If the latter is what is depicted, then it is interesting that 'Leonidas' is depicted in the contemporary 'Tube-and-Yoke' coreselet, which is how I believe the Spartans of Thermopylae and Plataea were equipped, rather than the obsolete bronze 'Bell' cuirass that many show ( e.g. Osprey publications) based on votive offerings etc from a century or more before......