10-31-2007, 12:19 AM
Meinpanzer wrote:-
...so 'many just had smaller rims' comes down to a single depiction ? ( leaving aside your sculpture for the moment)...btw I couldn't get your link to work, but found it from the RTW forum .....To my eye, there are no rims on those shields, which look very like the (rimless) archaeolgical example Gioi posted on page 1 of this thread.
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Quote:Notice that not only do the shields held by the phalangites have small rims (one more than the other), but their shields are entirely unlike what we normally hear about phalangite shields, being large and deeply concave.
...so 'many just had smaller rims' comes down to a single depiction ? ( leaving aside your sculpture for the moment)...btw I couldn't get your link to work, but found it from the RTW forum .....To my eye, there are no rims on those shields, which look very like the (rimless) archaeolgical example Gioi posted on page 1 of this thread.
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
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