11-01-2010, 09:53 PM
Hi.
I am in this forum since some month, but this is my first post.
I have to help a guy in my group to build/buy an etruscan infantry kit; we decided to focus on Sentinum battle (295 b.C.) because we reenact italian Gauls of III b.C. and so he could be in events with the rest of us without chronological problems.
But how would you figure an etruscan warrior in 295 b.C.? Still closer to an hoplite or already similar to a roman republican soldier?
Helmet:
i would go for a Montefortino with trilobated cheekguards.
Cuirass:
musculata (graves from Canosa and Orvieto; both second half of 4th b.C.)? Tube and yoke (like the statue of Mars from Todi, first half of 4th b.C.)? Chainmail? Breastplates?
Cnemides?
Sword:
machaira? Some kind of gladius?
Shield (biggest problem):
clipeus/aspis (some found until 300 b.C.)?
oval shield with central spina?
I own "Gli eserciti etruschi" by Ivo Fossati (quoted in another recent post), but it did'nt solve my problems because it ends with 4th century b.C.
What do you think?
I would prefer the oplitic model, just because otherwise, with Montefortino/ oblong shield/ chainmail he would look almost like us Celts, and also because i am looking for a good excuse to have fun building my first aspis, but i want your advice to know if it would be accurate.
I am in this forum since some month, but this is my first post.
I have to help a guy in my group to build/buy an etruscan infantry kit; we decided to focus on Sentinum battle (295 b.C.) because we reenact italian Gauls of III b.C. and so he could be in events with the rest of us without chronological problems.
But how would you figure an etruscan warrior in 295 b.C.? Still closer to an hoplite or already similar to a roman republican soldier?
Helmet:
i would go for a Montefortino with trilobated cheekguards.
Cuirass:
musculata (graves from Canosa and Orvieto; both second half of 4th b.C.)? Tube and yoke (like the statue of Mars from Todi, first half of 4th b.C.)? Chainmail? Breastplates?
Cnemides?
Sword:
machaira? Some kind of gladius?
Shield (biggest problem):
clipeus/aspis (some found until 300 b.C.)?
oval shield with central spina?
I own "Gli eserciti etruschi" by Ivo Fossati (quoted in another recent post), but it did'nt solve my problems because it ends with 4th century b.C.
What do you think?
I would prefer the oplitic model, just because otherwise, with Montefortino/ oblong shield/ chainmail he would look almost like us Celts, and also because i am looking for a good excuse to have fun building my first aspis, but i want your advice to know if it would be accurate.
Kosios (Livio Asta)
