Double hand grips on the aspis

[PMBardunias]

Hey,I do remember speaking about this on the phalax long ago,but it was actually MY idea. I remember you saying this was the only logical explanation(except of your of course ) that one proposed in all that discussion. Please don't make me go back into thousands of posts to find it and post it here! However you must be older than me in the Phalax forum,so perhaps you had thought of it before i came,but i certainly haven't read it from you.

Ok, I conceed its probably yours. It is a good explanation.

In all those vases the ropes are at least somewhat curved,often in the oposite direction of the vase's curvature.

I think there is too much variability on all these features in vase paintings to be sure of either of our points. That's why I liked your idea above back in the days before I came to think of it as a truss. It is a functional explanation based on the mechanics of shield design, not a simple attempt to exlain what we see on the vases.