07-23-2011, 08:21 PM
I thought I'd put this up.
For recreators and armourers, I was fascinated by the punches--some very small--with complete designs. I wondered if all that detail was repoussed--apparently not, it's punched.
![[Image: 5967237906_12c46108c4_b.jpg]](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6014/5967237906_12c46108c4_b.jpg)
For sword afficianados, a 200BC Hellenistic Xiphos from Aegypt that's to all intents a rapier. I see many of these--thrust only weapons...
![[Image: 5967106130_b6cc901a75_b.jpg]](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6146/5967106130_b6cc901a75_b.jpg)
Finally, as further fuel for our endless debates on the dressing order and equipment of hoplites, I offer these photos of aryballoi from about 600BC, showing a regular dressing order and matching shield patterns--and aspides very obviously NOT overlapping.
![[Image: 5966541081_8e47277e40_b.jpg]](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6001/5966541081_8e47277e40_b.jpg)
For recreators and armourers, I was fascinated by the punches--some very small--with complete designs. I wondered if all that detail was repoussed--apparently not, it's punched.
![[Image: 5967237906_12c46108c4_b.jpg]](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6014/5967237906_12c46108c4_b.jpg)
For sword afficianados, a 200BC Hellenistic Xiphos from Aegypt that's to all intents a rapier. I see many of these--thrust only weapons...
![[Image: 5967106130_b6cc901a75_b.jpg]](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6146/5967106130_b6cc901a75_b.jpg)
Finally, as further fuel for our endless debates on the dressing order and equipment of hoplites, I offer these photos of aryballoi from about 600BC, showing a regular dressing order and matching shield patterns--and aspides very obviously NOT overlapping.
![[Image: 5966541081_8e47277e40_b.jpg]](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6001/5966541081_8e47277e40_b.jpg)
![[Image: 5967095040_8a01cddd1a_b.jpg]](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6141/5967095040_8a01cddd1a_b.jpg)
Qui plus fait, miex vault.