Double hand grips on the aspis

[Giannis K. Hoplite]

I interpret this "grip" simply as a thickened section of the same rope or a sleeve over the rope of the antilabe to better facilitate holding. If it is contiguous then the whole thing can be appropriately called antilabe. Unless people belive me and start calling it a "decorative remnant of a once functional truss" (DROFT), then we have no term for it other than antilabe anyway

I don't think it can be thought as a continuation of the rope,for it's there even when the ropes are missing and also it is clearly tied to the fittings. Also if the rope passed through it,when the rope would be tightened(for example when the shield was hung from it), the antilabe would have to be tightened,too,something not so practical. So,the lack of another word doesn't mean we should allow ourselves to be calling it wrong,causing a lot of confusion. Lets call it "telamon" or "aorter" like the hunging rope of the peltes. Of course the problem is I believe they were used to hung them while you don't,but it's a better sollution than call them "antilabe". For one,if they were at all as kind of "labe", they should have been called "perilabe"(grip around).
Khaire
Giannis