Figure 8 shields

[Creon01]

Hey Dan, I just quoted what Andrea Salimbeti wrote. Still, I can't imagine with all their other achievements they did not see the need for a hand grip of some sort to better control such a large shield. As you can guess I like the idea that Salimbeti thinks the layers of protective material were glued together...where else did I hear something like that....

I see on his website that the last update was just a few months ago so he's still searching for answers.

But seriously, the lack of much hard evidence regarding the various types of shields we observe in Greek art makes definitive statements problematic.