06-23-2006, 07:19 AM
Khaire Stefanos,
after reading Your fine article I just googled around with the search words 'aigagros' or 'knossos labyrinth'. So I found among others this site:
[url:2n70rjju]http://www.eepf.gr/[/url]
It contains the picture of a coin (from 1951?) depicted with a chamois (aigagros ?) that I assumed to be the reproduction of an ancient motif. Regrettably I don't understand Greek language and can read the characters hardly only. :? But I could imagine this (ancient ?) motif very well as a shield design for a Cretan Auxiliary archer because it would fit well to the buckler.
Could the motifs have been painted on the shield or was it just embossed bronze? Is the shield that Your friend has painted more presumably than a small round shield with a boss?
BTW, I like the painting style of Your friend Nikos Panos, if I wouldn't know it, I would confuse it with a painting of Osprey's painter Ronald Embleton. Is there any chance to download the archer's picture?
Greets - Uwe
after reading Your fine article I just googled around with the search words 'aigagros' or 'knossos labyrinth'. So I found among others this site:
[url:2n70rjju]http://www.eepf.gr/[/url]
It contains the picture of a coin (from 1951?) depicted with a chamois (aigagros ?) that I assumed to be the reproduction of an ancient motif. Regrettably I don't understand Greek language and can read the characters hardly only. :? But I could imagine this (ancient ?) motif very well as a shield design for a Cretan Auxiliary archer because it would fit well to the buckler.
Could the motifs have been painted on the shield or was it just embossed bronze? Is the shield that Your friend has painted more presumably than a small round shield with a boss?
BTW, I like the painting style of Your friend Nikos Panos, if I wouldn't know it, I would confuse it with a painting of Osprey's painter Ronald Embleton. Is there any chance to download the archer's picture?
Greets - Uwe
Greets - Uwe
