10-31-2007, 11:03 AM
Quote:...so 'many just had smaller rims' comes down to a single depiction ? ( leaving aside your sculpture for the moment)...btw I couldn't get your link to work, but found it from the RTW forum .....To my eye, there are no rims on those shields, which look very like the (rimless) archaeolgical example Gioi posted on page 1 of this thread.)
First, I am only using these two examples because these are the only definite depictions of phalangites that we have. I can draw on other sources carrying Macedonian shields, but those could, of course, be soldiers who fought in some other sort of manner.
Second, look at the man holding his shield in profile behind the phalangite wearing the crested pilos helmet. That is definitely a pronounced rim. The example Gioi posted does not project at all when viewed in profile (other than the dagged teeth as it appears now, which would have been folded inwards anyway). Like I said, the rims aren't large, but they are still there.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
