Spolas? "Subarmalis"?

[Dan Howard]

That's NOT true at all, my friend! They DID used "Wall-shield" with THIS armor!

I have spent several years combing the Iliad for shield and armour references and retranslating the original text. I can't find a single instance in which a person is wearing a Dendra Panoply and carrying a full-height shield.

I'll try to find some images to post.

I would be very interested if you can produce an image, made at the time (not modern artistic interpretations), of a Mykenaian carrying a full height shield and wearing a Dendra Panoply.

.. AJAX, was wearing THAT type of armor and the report for his HUGE "Wall-type" shield

Where? Give me one line from the Iliad that suggests Ajax was wearing a Dendra Panoply. The only reference in the entire book to anything even remotely resembling a Dendra Panoply is the armour worn by Phyleides [15.529-534] and, IIRC Homer does not mention whether he carried a shield.

Regarding Ajax's "wall type" shield you will have to wait for my paper to be published. I have expended significant word count dismantling that translation. The only difference between Ajax's shield and many of the other shields described in the Iliad is the number of oxhide layers.