06-24-2010, 07:09 PM
Quote:He is not a dismounted cavalryman for these bore different, larger shields with spina/umbo, as other parts of the frieze show.
Isn't the fellow in the image of the Paullus monument below with the aspis-ish shield mounted?
Quote:So, then, once again, please explain how that figure was able to wield a sarissa two-handed while carrying such a shield with a porpax.
You mention one of the sarissaphoroi's peltae has a "rim". There is a fellow at the far left who as avery small rim, but I wonder if you are thinking of the righthand man in the pair on the left. I once thought that this was a rim too, but a better image, which I don't have with me, shows that this is an illusion caused by wear on the line that should be the outer curve of the shield. With that curve obscured, what you are looking at is the decorative semicircle, not the outer face, See below:
Paul M. Bardunias
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