Single grip aspis

[hoplite14gr]

In the Delphoi Museum there is a single grip bronze shiels dates in the Early Geometric period.
Pausanias describeed 11th cent B.C. armor survivng to his day (1st century A.D.)

I am willing to accept that the artist had seen similar shileds hanging on the holy places and juged reasonably
that it would be fitting to show if he described a mythical scene.


"Porpax antilavi" appears probably earlier than the Lelantine War 8th ventury.
This combination establishes its supremacy in Hyssia 670 B.C. whem Pheidon crushed the Spartans.

Hoplites of central an northern Greece converted fully probably after the Persian Wars.

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