11-05-2007, 09:03 PM
Yes, Wolfgang, now that you mention it, I have seen that site and its results too !
We have a figure for the Vatican shield....I wonder where Sekunda got his figure from, or is it a 'guesstimate' based on the knowledge that they were 'thin'?
Any of our greek friends know/can find out the thickness of the 'Sphakteria Trophy' shield cover?( the one in Athens, inscribed 'taken from the Lakedaemonians?) ...or the Aspis covers/facings in the so-called Philip tomb?...or the intact Pelte covers illustrated in this thread?
With several figures one might get some idea of the range ( e.g. O.5-1mm) of thicknesses........
We have a figure for the Vatican shield....I wonder where Sekunda got his figure from, or is it a 'guesstimate' based on the knowledge that they were 'thin'?
Any of our greek friends know/can find out the thickness of the 'Sphakteria Trophy' shield cover?( the one in Athens, inscribed 'taken from the Lakedaemonians?) ...or the Aspis covers/facings in the so-called Philip tomb?...or the intact Pelte covers illustrated in this thread?
With several figures one might get some idea of the range ( e.g. O.5-1mm) of thicknesses........
Quote:And considerable weight,too....if silver, 600 odd grams ( see my previous post) Silver has a density of 10.5, to archaic bronze 9 so a bronze facing 1mm thick would be roughly 90% of a silver one.... 8)
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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
Paul McDonnell-Staff